Which is the best form of schooling?

[John Dibble]

I'm surprised none of you have yet made this answer - none of the above. There is no one 'best' form of schooling. What's best for one student may be bad for another. Any of these forms of schooling can create a thriving learning environment or fail miserably at that goal. If there clearly was one best way then that would probably be the only one practiced.

Home schooling = a way for fundies to shove creationism into their kids' heads.

Actually, I know of one case where atheists were basically forced to home school their kids because the public school environment was filled with enough anti-atheist Christians that keeping their kids there would be bad for them. While home schooling can be used as a platform for indoctrination, the same can be said of public and private schools.

[John Dibble]

The problem with home schooling is that you deprive children of important social interaction with other children and parents often indoctrinate their kids with their beliefs (be they liberal or conservative).

Not necessarily - home schooling can involve students from other households. Also, indoctrination can be a problem in any school environment.