My wife and I pulled OUR daughters out of public school... after talking seriously to our daughters about it. We home schooled them for several years. Both went through the entire high school curriculum years early, they easily passed the state high school exam and then went straight into junior college. One daughter started college at age 17. The other started college at age 16.

Strangely enough, it only takes about 4-hours per day of home-school education, which is about 2-hours more per day of 'education' than they get at a public school. The rest of a 'public education' day is just excess crap and fluff. My kids started their 4-hours per day of education at 8:00am until Noon, then did 4-hours of homework or assignments... and their school day was completely done (homework and everything) by 4:00pm. No homework in the evenings or weekends.

We weren't easy on them. Far from it. I cannot believe the ignorance of the average High School graduate. My daughters were better educated and had a better grasp of science, math, history, geography, vocabulary, reading & writing skills, etc... by 7th grade than most of these 12 graders seem to have these days. Funny enough, but they actually enjoyed getting out of the public schools and not dealing with all of the crud that goes on.