Missed this due to phone posting and just generally missing a ton of replies, I would like to respond to this however because I both agree and disagree.
I agree that that first sentence is how it
should work. Fuck, more than half of my property taxes go to the public school system. I'd demand they be accountable too and they rightly should. The issue is that no matter how much effort and attention you put to it, it's a government institution. There's just no getting around that. Between the administrators, the school boards, the teacher's, the counselors, the learning material suppliers, and more, there are a ton of points of failure. It's a mass of bureaucrats that you can only mitigate the excesses of and not control.
Let me put it this way. This is the public school system.
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You can dress it up. Make the facilities all nice (gotta spend your taxes on something). Get it doing what you want most of the time. Even trust them with your children most of the time. You know though, you know in the back of your head that every time you leave the room there's a chance that it's not a teacher of the year helming that class of 2 or 3 dozen kids. There is simply no one else out there more invested in the outcome and safety of your children than you yourself. Which is why I also disagree with your post. Homeschooling is not simply for the crunchy moms and the religious. Sure those make up a demographic of the population but it's not limited to them. This is why I am frustrated and let down by the parental response. Imagine ever trusting these institutions again after an event like this. I've seen too many of these. Known too many burnt out and just done teachers. Known too much failure even in the "rich districts". I don't want to play the odds with my kids, so I'll find a way to stack the odds in my kids favor even if it means we have to get more creative to have one parent at home. I look at these parents and they're so close, they're so close to breaking the backs of these institutions but they won't. They'll try to reform these places that fail consistently and then play the odds again. I wouldn't do that, I'm not doing that.