I don’t think it’s as cut and dried as you make it out to be. There are risks on both paths. All kids are unique and what works for one may not work for another.
I’m going to try to go the unschooling route, and see how it goes.
Unschooling doesn’t make those disappear. I knew plenty of homeschooled kids that had sex and kids before 18, who drank and did drugs, and I’m pretty sure all of them are in middling careers as corporate drones.
Weird as it sounds, the earlier you come in contact with many human pathologies the better.
You might not want to be a corporate drone, being socialized differently to almost everyone is just another extreme.
Still, I'd say there's way more consistency between schools than between unorthodox parents.
Most people who are behaving like sociopaths in middle school appear to grow out of it and lead normal lives.