Maybe my view of this is skewed, since I don't have kids yet and I loathe the public school system... but I do have a question:
To those of you with kids that feel similarly... Why not private schools or homeschool? I understand if the parents have fulltime jobs, homeschool might not be an option... but don't we have some sort of school voucher system to assist with private schools?
I refuse to submit my future child(ren) to a public school... and if homeschooling isn't an option, I will absolutely be going the route of a private school.
WE did the private school thing. Not sure if it was the right thing to do but they all are doing OK.
The kids in the private schools are somewhat privileged. Not my kids as I was blue collar. The wife was a business professional but we are down to earth folks.
Many of the kids that went to school with my kids did not do well in the real world. I can not blame the schools for their failures. I blame parenting period. I know what and where I failed my kids as we moved through this life. No one is perfect but we have to adjust and make the hard decisions.