Many home schooled children far surpass the standards of learning as opposed to those of common curriculum. If I had school aged kids now there would be no public school!!!! I would find a group so my child could socialize but it would be like minded teaching and I would think the environment would be far more conducive to learning than any public school. Just having a child who could critically think and not blame others for every little tiny shortcoming or problem ... would be legions ahead of the dumbed down screamers we have now. I blame the schools who have turned into indoctrination hubs for the Commies. I don't recognize some of these people as human children anymore. The bit of the movie, in 1984, that deals with Winston's neighbor who has two insufferable monsters who finally turn their Father in to the thought police, comes to mind.