Bubble, what bubble?

I just read a newspaper article profiling a local homeschooling family http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/08/13/b2s.homeschool/index.html
To be "fair" CNN inserted quotes from a homeschool adversary, Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists. Of course he is accociated with The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, who have long lobbied against home schooling, passing a yearly resolution that says "home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience."
Here's the quote that burned my butt: Unless we are prepared to keep our children in bubbles their entire lives, we have to give them an opportunity to have some exposure to real-world problems so they can develop coping strategies," says Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists.
What a maroon! I say my children are no more in a bubble than a child in an elementary school who only deals with children his own age all the time. So are they sayig that it is better to be sequestered and influenced by children, than to be exposed to people of all ages... especially is some of those people are family?
Give me a break.
ps. otherwise it is a ver good article.