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"Care to share the results? Our kids are about half-way through now. Did you homeschool through high school?"

Sure. We started home schooling in our daughter in 1984 (we were one of the early home school families). She was Home schooled K-12. She then went her first two years to Grove City College in Pa, and her last two years at Arizona State University where she graduated with her BS in Biology. She's currently working and going back to school to become a science teacher.

My wife and I always marveled that we ended up with a "scientist" in the family as neither or us are trained in the hard sciences. However, we plodded steadily along all the way through calculus and physics, etc. to get her ready for college...mission accomplished.

Our son (who was born preemie has cerebral palsy), we home schooled K-7. He then went to a private Christian school that my wife taught at for several years. We then home schooled him for his senior year.

Given his handicap there was NO WAY we were EVERY going to let the state get their grubby little hands on him. They would have immediately labeled him "learning disabled" and shuffled him off to "special ed". So we spent years teaching him at home one-on-one to read, write, think, have moral values and tie his shoes! After years of physical therapy, surgeries and one-on-one education, he's now a senior at Arizona State University majoring in political science. He's also in the Barrett Honor College working on a thesis regarding US National Security topics and has a full academic scholarship. I guess we didn't screw him up too badly even though we weren't "certified teachers" or "education professionals", etc.

This is a kid who in spite of his Cerebral Palsy loves to shoot pistols, hunts, rock climbs, studies Aikido martial arts and has now taken up boxing. (Can you tell I'm proud of him?).

My advice for you is to stay the course with your kids in home schooling because it will make a difference in their lives. Also, on a related note, Arizona is a home school "friendly" state where parents have a lot of autonomy from the state education bureaucracy.