I'm a homeschooler. The main reason one homeschools is because you are passionate about your kid's education. Homeschooling allows the kid to proceed at the kid's maximum sustainable pace in each area
I don't know, that seems like a recipe for high standards to me.
My wife and I bought a home in an area that had award winning public schools and started our kids out in those schools. Everything was great until they got to junior high - then we noticed they weren't learning much anymore, so we paid the price and transferred them to private schools. The difference was night and day.
Anyhow, we were always very involved in the kids' education, wife was PTA, we always made it our business to know the teachers personally, participated in all activities, etc. I noticed that most of the kids doing poorly came from families where the parents did not participate.
Beyond that, we loved our children so much that we always did everything together with them, travel, fish, everything. Not because we read that that's what families are supposed to do - we just couldn't help ourselves.
In any case, I have met quite a few Freepers who are homeschoolers, I think well of all of them, and though we did not tread that path, consider homeschooling to be a good solution. The facts prove it.