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<p>Agreed with both these points. I had my oldest son in a start-up online high school, and that had some good courses, but just how good the courses were was unknown to college admission offices, and the busyness caused by that choice and the lack of in-high-school extracurricular activities ended up being a poor college admission trade-off. My son was smart enough to pursue a personal interest of his own, off-transcript and hard to document on a college application, that should produce some good work opportunities for him during and after college. For my younger children, I will emphasize even more building the program of courses and activities around their interests rather than building their schedules around some one-size-fits-all school schedule. I will further make sure that their local in-person team activities don’t get crowded out of their schedule–that’s an important element of preparation for being in a college community. Live and learn. The best strength of homeschooling is FLEXIBILITY–take full advantage of that.</p>