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I can't put my finger on it, but there's a double standard here for someone who tries to take the traditional route --- keep kid in public (magnet) school and supplement at home and support the further development of his interests (science, medicine research in this case) beyond what the school can provide --- and someone who takes a much more nontraditional path --- to homeschool and travel the world to fulfill educational goals and passions.
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I do not see any double standard at all, and I see few parallels between the two stories, except that both made it into a newspaper. It does not take much reading to uncover the amazing differences in the stories. From one family, the journey was most important; for the other, it was all about the destination. One family worried until the end about their decision to travel to an unknown path; the other picked a path that no longer led to an Ivy-covered Shangri-La.
The different outcomes is yet another testament that adcoms are not as easily fooled as many would like us to believe. And, fwiw, it is not an accident that the people who still believe with unabated passion in "packaging" and especially in "yesterday's packaging" are the most vocal complainers in April. To bad for them that adcoms figured out all those fabricated and mostly individual passions build on Suzuki classes and dojos disappeared as soon as the admissions were earned and that all those SAT classes masquerading as Sunday classes rarely translated into academic brilliance. There is a world of difference between showcasing passion and brilliance and .. creating it. No amount of "packaging" can change that!
There is a reason why paint-by-the-numbers paintings are not hanging in a museum but in someone's kitchen.