I am in full agreement with you... assuming that the family is dedicated to actually doing it. We have poured ourselves into our children and their education, and now that we're getting the first 5 to college age, we are thrilled that not only are they people we love to be around, and that others seem to love being around.. but their entrance exams have been excellent and they are continuing their education outside the home at college and being competitive. We hope that means we did ok. However, we are surrounded by folks who basically kept their kids at home, but didn't put much effort into the education portion, and their kids are not able to excel in college, are having problems at their jobs, etc... That's why I have become a proponent of enthusiastically supporting homeschooling done correctly (which varies from family to family, and may only distinguish itself as being different to homeschooling done incorrectly, which basically means not even meeting the dismal educational standards of our public schools).