We are considering home-schooling. I want to keep my daughter from being exposed to the world; however, she has to experience it to learn how to deal with it. What do you think?

I think this is fine. Many of the public schools are so bad. Home-schooling is not only safe, but normally tends to produce better students. Their test scores are way above the norm. There are other ways to build social skills...

The Bible pictures the father and mother has having primary responsibility for educating their children (as in the book of Proverbs), not the state. That's my 2 cents' worth!