Lab chemists: Are they antisocial or unnecessary?

Are you asking 'Are lab chemists necessary?' or are you asking 'are social skills necessary?' ? Of the course the answer is yes to both I hope you have great children and they become very successful I fear the home schooled students don't develop the social skills to pick their own friends, say no to drugs, and realize when they are been 'conned'. My experience with home schooled kids is teaching a few in DAPCEP (its sort of like First Lego League) the Home schooled kids didn't identify with their team, were very critical of their teams and themselves, needed too much direction, and did poorly on opened ended assignments. Not that other kids did not have these problems also, but it struck me as odd that ALL the home schooled kids had this probelm with being on a team and producing in an open sitiuation the open ended situation was: now that you know what these LEGO robots can do, have them perform a few complicated tasks (sort change, pick up and dump garbage), or many simple tasks, have the robot follow a black line on the floor, have the robot pull a heavy weight, etc. ) This was a Saturday morning class, with no 'grade' so I cannot say if this was a calculated reaction or not. In 3 years with about 10 home schooled kids, I noticed these SAME traits EVERYTIME! Hmmm?