School is a free-for-all of ideas and values, as you are exposed to many people from different backgrounds.
This is what many homeschoolers are trying to avoid.
For example, a girl in my ward is home-schooled and done very well on her SAT.
Her father said that maybe if she ended up going to a more conservative university she wouldn't be exposed to "some lesbian school club."
Of course, it is probably true, that when you send your kid to a $50k/yr school on the east coast with three other Mormon undergrads in the entire school, none of them active, you are not setting up your child for being an active member of the church. But the parents and the child are in perfect agreement that that is the case, even if they never actually discuss it.
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