Depending on who's schooling the home schooled kids. One thing for certain, government school's quality has been sinking for years. If government teachers were paid the equivalent of the quality they produce But with tenure and unions, they are guaranteed wage increases and exorbitant pensions regardless of the product quality.

Now before someone's nose gets bent out of shape, there are many fine school systems that somehow manage to keep the standards high. But they are the exception and not the rule, in my ever so humble opinion, of course.