There's an alternative that is pretty amazing. Takes the social environment of school, and combines it with the pluses of homeschooling. I went to a school my last few years of high school called iSchool High, it's a program run at my local community college that allows highschoolers to dual-credit enroll in college too. So instead of taking English 4 your senior year of HS, you just take English 1301 as a dual credit class and it gives you the highschool credit for English 4, but also gives you college hours. You can technically earn a bachelor's degree by the time you graduate highschool with this school. But that's not even the best part, this is what makes it homeschool-like if not better than any homeschool. You have 4 or 5 teachers for your entire school, each of which are the "math" or "science" teachers. You do your work in a system of workbooks (10 workbooks per class credit, with a test at the end of each book and no midterm or final) and you go at your own pace. There's deadlines you must meet but if you're efficient and know a bit about the subject all ready you can finish a high school class in 1/3 the time it takes traditionally. When you finish a workbook, you turn it in to the teacher and take a test on that book before moving onto the next one, and you're not allowed to move on unless you get a 90% on the test which makes all this reasonable to me. So you're able to work at your own pace on classes you choose to do in an order you want, take all tests on your own schedule when you're ready for them, and you get to replace high school credits with college hours.

I have never studied so hard or learned so much in such a short time before I went to that school. Sure it won't be for every kid as there were plenty of kids removed from the program for doing absolutely nothing the whole time but talking to friends, but for the majority this program works extremely well.

This form of alternate education is what I think is the ultimate answer to what we should do about our public school system lacking, and I believe there should be no reason to homeschool your kid when this exists. They have pre-k through 8th grade schools that utilize the same system but more kid-friendly, then the high school portion of the system is intertwined with college classes and offers almost complete freedom.

TL;DR: PLEASE don't homeschool your kids, Google " Responsive Education Solutions"- it seems to be the company behind all this.. and after digging, looks like their only in Texas. Try to find a local company that does this if you're out of state.