Please don't lecture me on the public school system. I took them to administrative hearings every chance I got, because I learned I had to. They fought back, and viciously, in court, but they lost, and lost big, and suddenly all our problems disappeared.
You have to believe in what your are fighting for and nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important than your child. It is a war, and while it shouldn't be, you have to treat it as one, and hold them accountable for everything, from the the punch a nigger crackbaby gave your child because the teacher was too busy tweeting or the shitty teachers who are phoning it in, because every single battle counts until you win the war, and then you have to keep overwatch like a hawk so they don't think trying for a rematch is a good idea.
If even one third of the parents believed as I do the AFT would be in shambles. But they don't, and they cry its all too much and that teachers are pitbulls with flowers in their hair. Bitch, I was a Rottweiler when it came to my kid and I never hid it, and I fought to the death, and I won.
Edit: My child is a successful adult now and it was totes worth it, and I'd do it again except I'd be more aggressive, if I could.