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I don't see how anyone can generalize about home schooling in the way some are doing here. I would think that the quality of a home school depends -- as it does for a traditional school -- on the quality and commitment of the teachers, the availability of adequate resources (note that I don't think you need much to get to "adequate," so don't go there please), the commitment of the parents and the curriculum. It probably varies quite a bit from home school to home school.
If you're going to generalize, I think the issue really is whether kids lose out on social lessons when they're in a home school. Some home schools network with each other to address this problem, but even then you're going to have an issue. I don't know what the effect is, but I think that's the central difference between a home school and a traditional one. Beyond that, you'll see variance on both sides in every direction.
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