«More difficult, I think, is the question
of whether home schooling poses any sort
of a problem for society; a
threat to social cohesion, for example, or a
brain drain from the public schools.
For U.S. scientists, a loss in scientific prominence would likely mean «fewer U.S. - based science and technology breakthroughs, and fewer U.S. startup companies and jobs,» and even the
threat of an American
brain drain.