I wish the homeschooling option would have been available when I was in school. I would definitely want to educate my children this way today if I had young ones.

Even back in the 1980's, except for a small handful of stellar teachers who still had a passion for teaching, the public education system in Columbus, Ohio was a steaming pile of pure crap. I was bored out of my mind more often than not. Instead of trying to tailor the lesson plans to the majority of students performing in the average category the administrators tended to dumb down the curriculum to make the worst performing students feel as though they were average "C-level" students.

Then during high school ('85-'89) the environment became outright dangerous because of gangs' influence in the school and almost no learning took place. Teachers were miserable and spent most of their time just trying to keep the kids from hurting one another. I only needed two credits my senior year to graduate and ended up cutting classes over 100 days and they still let me graduate. I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone.