Pickone1 – you said it best: “But I think successful homeschoolers and top high schools share one characteristic, they are simply not the problem. I think parents who can follow a good HS curriculum or an enhanced curriculum and provide their kids a good or stellar education are not a problem. It is the poor performing schools and the ignorant HSers who are not serving the kids. I might even argue for arguing sake that if you live in a poor performing school district and do not engage with the public school but instead coddle your snowflake, you might be missing a chance to contribute more to society by not say teaching or volunteering.”
^^ Indeed, it is the poor performing schools and the ignorant HSers that need attention but seldom get it. In both cases, the children bear the brunt of decisions they did not make. And it would seem many of the success stories are linked to affluence. The kids who suffer, in both scenarios, are the ones least likely to have access to parents or schools that are well-to-do/well-connected/well-resourced.