The choice shouldn’t be between home schooling and government schools, it should be between home schooling and private schools. Education is an individually consumed, abstract service industry. There’s no need to tangle it up with compulsion, coercion, taxation, and government propaganda. The private schools could be quite varied to appeal to different people: online or in-person, big or small, neighborhood or regional, religious or not, multicultural or not, disciplinarian or not, etc, etc. Eventually the alumni would reveal the effectiveness of their respective schools’ and the more effective ones would receive more resources and expand, while the foolish ones would wither without coercive government subsidies.