Excellent question and excellent post. These thoughts eventually led me to homeschool my kids, integrating a great co-op community nearby and it has made all the difference. We are homeschooling our kids from the day they were born and the only question is WHY DID WE STOP? Outsourcing the job to the state has been a more than 100 year mistake that has finally reached its full destructive potential. Resist and be the weirdo…it makes all the difference