I'm for home schooling.
I was diagnosed with a minor form of Tourette's Syndrome and OCD when I was about 8. I also moved around a lot as a kid, literally 15 times before I was 12. Both of these factors made it hard for me to make and retain friends at a young age. Often in school I wasn't very popular. I did well enough - I was able to skip 4th grade and move to 5th - but over time I began feeling so poor about how people treated me that I stopped applying myself. There were a lot of elements that played into my lack of effort - some mine, some from other students, some from poor management at the school - but, in the end, I was in a position where I had to drop out for my own sanity.
My mother tried about as hard as anyone could have expected her. She has no educational background. She's very smart herself, with a law degree and a double major from PAC-12 (then 10) schools. The family moved one last time, for my father's work, and I pretty much began homeschooling and teaching myself at the age of 12. The distinction here is important: homeschooling was a period during the day where my mother used textbooks to try and teach me general skills such as Math, or English, or History. The period where I taught myself was when I read, or wrote, or studied on my own. This was nearly all the time.
It wasn't really intentional; in other words, I wasn't trying to further my education. I just liked reading and writing. Between the two, I feel like I learned a good amount.
I can't really say that what I learned compares to a traditional education. I wouldn't know. What I know is that at 15 I got my GED and enrolled at the University of Arizona. I graduated with a high GPA, and then got into a Master's Program at Johns Hopkins. I recently just finished that program up at the top of my class with a 4.0 GPA.
A lot of people ask about the social aspect of homeschooling. Does it make it hard to meet people? It can. Does it prevent you from learning people skills? It can. But I've always been a social person. Moving around a lot as a kid, I learned to make friends wherever I can. Often I made friends faster with adults than I did with kids my age. The first year in college was difficult, I suppose, but I ended up making the best friends of my life and I have no particular regrets or feelings of loss.
Homeschooling empowered me to feel like I can learn anything I want, and forced me to apply myself for my own sake. It allowed me to explore the passions I follow to this day - writing, filmmaking, playing music. It probably isn't for everyone but, having lived in Arizona for a great deal of my life (which has a remarkably terrible public school system), it's definitely better than some other alternatives.