I prefer a home schooled kid over a public school where they are not taught to learn but socialize. I have not met 1 in 40 years that was not articulate and could hold their own in a room full of adults and stay engaging and better informed than any of their counter parts in public school. Never ever under estimate the power that you are teaching by home schooling and it is something to carry with pride that you are and not shuffling them off to become idiots who can't function in real life.