[TalonDJ]

What I do know for a fact is that a well equipped chem lab is NOT something that parents are capable of providing on their own ( some of the chemicals can only be purchased if you are an educational facility or research lab)

This is completely false. There is no chemical needed to teach high school laboratory chemistry that cannot be ordered easily. The same goes for every critical piece of laboratory equipment. For a couple hundred bucks you can have everything you need. I know because I used to sell such kits at conventions and I got into engineering college with the results. If that outlay is too much for a family there are homeschool co-ops all over this country where parents get together and the one with the most science background teaches some key subject. They are not hard to locate.

[TalonDJ]

Oh, and if the chemistry example is not enough for you... you can also do biology lab at home too. We dissected fetal pigs on the kitchen table. My little sister, who became a DVM, also did sharks and cats and all sorts of stuff. We had some really nice lab quality microscopes that any public school would have been jealous of. Not enough for ya? A lot of freshmen engineers I knew in school had never soldered. Whereas my siblings had our Amateur radio licenses. Mom taught us that stuff by getting her license along with is. I still use the RF stuff I learned back then on the job because mechanical engineering degrees are a bit light on the EE stuff.

[Nifster]

That’s really nice. The chem lab in my high school ( and I am talking in the 60s) had things in it that allowed us to do high quality labs. I was able to take the advanced classes that allowed me to skip first year chem in college.

The thing I find most interesting is that all of the folks who are so adamant about home schooling the children, happily send them off to universities that are way more out there.