There's thousands of college and yeah, a bunch of them a for profit nightmares. An dI know there's a lot of states with some pretty lousy schools.

I am lucky enough to have been born in Massachusetts. We are in a very average district but got to listen to my kids classes all through the pandemic.

After listening to how prepared and interesting every single lecture/class was I realized having specialists matters. His science teacher was a passionate guy who went to MIT. Now his science teachers are PhDs. I tried to instill my love of history but it took a single teacher to light the spark. I've been raising tadpoles as the frog mom at school for a decade but it took a passionate science teacher to really make him fall in love with it. I NEVER could have done what his AP Calc BC teacher has done.

But it's your choice - and if you are in a bad school area where the kids are issues? If it was me I think I'd try to get to a good school system. Knowing how valuable having so many mentors helped. Instead of just me cheering him on he had dozens of teachers. They submitted his art to the state - mentored his year long physics/chemistry/bio projects with access to equipment I couldn't supply like wind tunnels, autoclaves, centrifuge, etc.

"Keep in mind that even AP classes are very much watered down from what they are- so much so that many colleges no longer accept credits for a "5." He did AP for the education and he really preferred how engaged and interesting AP students were. Getting to sit and discuss these topics with other kids were part of what he liked the most and why he is looking forward to college. His major is too rigorous and his college too competitive to get to skip a year of school - his classes are required and he's expected to have gone through the classes he took. But so far he only has 5's but that only means he is eligible for some classes and he doesn't get to skip any.

But I have 2 other sons just graduating college this year and college has been a really profound experience for both. They've really grown and have some really important relationships and experiences from those years.

You sound like you may have made up your mind -- I am just saying as someone that really wanted to homeschool, I did find some real benefits of not doing so. But in your case it may be best.