I agree with what you said here. There wasn't anyone bashing home schooling on my previous post. That would have given me someone to mentally joust with. :)
My last post a couple of days ago the one I linked at the top of this article was about the Prussian Education System, how it has invaded our systems, and some major problems with it.
If you have a child in modern U.S. education that is excited and excelling the modern system can quickly squash that. My youngest child was doing 9 digit addition and subtraction in his head by the time he was in kindergarten.
It also turns out his approach to division was producing the correct results, but was done in a completely different way than taught. They of course wanted him to stop and do their method so he would SHOW HIS WORK, because they didn't understand his method. I didn't pull him out soon enough.
Then when he reached the point where they taught him estimation that brilliant math mind was homogenized and that odd genius he would apply no longer worked that way anymore.
He wasn't the only child of mine that I saw the excitement killed in. No Child Left Behind was a very bad bill. It could be read another way "All children taught at the same speed".
It doesn't work. These days in the U.S. homeschooling is likely the best way to go. I also don't consider college these days any better. I've had to be tech support for many colleges and what I've seen over the years has been appalling so I'm glad your daughter made it through that unscathed.