Since you guys are a neutral party.

[Dawson]

Home schooling has it's pro's and con's for sure. However, I think that when the parent does it properly, the pro's far out weigh the con's. How successful it is really depends upon the parent more than anything else.

I was home schooled from the fourth grade on back when it was just starting to take hold and even then we had a group just in my area of well over 40 families or around 70 kids by the time I finished school, there are a lot more now (13 years later). We had field trips together and met once a week to help with the socializing issue which was and should be a concern for any parent who decides to go that route.
Where I am, Florida, the state requires all home schooled children to take the same standardized tests that public school kids take to insure the home schooled children are where they should be academically and the fact of the matter is, most of them score considerably higher than the state average.

Some parents can't handle doing something like that, and some do it for the wrong reasons, but in most cases, at least out of the people I know who were and are being home schooled, it has proven very beneficial for the child and without listing them off, has a lot fewer con's than a public school education....and I'm not just referring to academic performance when I say "con's".