I'm going to follow along with this thread as well.
Socialization is up to the parents to arrange, isn't that what church and church functions are for?
The public school systems over here are horrid and only teach what is in the book and on the paper and if you arent a good little conforming robot you will fail.
Not including the competition to get into the "right pre school" so your kid can go to the "right kindergarten"so they can get into the "right primary school"and the "right secondary"then the "right University" On top of the extra curricular things, French, violin/piano, poetry, sports, 4 hours of homework every night. These are all for bragging rights for the parents who dont even take care of their kids, their helpers kart the poor ill mannered and undisciplined things around.
We looked into homeschooling over here, its a grey area and not looked upon very well.
When we get to Michigan, there is school of choice, and according to my mother who is ultra raging liberal, there is a "great"school right down the road from us....the only Orthodox school is about 5 hours south, so that's out.
There are some good schools in the area but its up to you to get your kids there. (like a parent should)
Home schooling is a serious option for us, My wife will finish her Masters soon, art, music, language she got that part. History, science and the rest...would have to be up to me...
Im studying to re take the ASVAB this April hopefully, mathematics is not a good point for me....
My high school teacher, instead of offering help and suggestions to students that were not getting the problems he would just call them stupid and fail them. I never got past pre-algebra/general math in high school, and that was with a D grade.
Same teacher the entire 4 years..you cant take physics, chemistry, advanced biology (which I was really interested in) without better mathematics.
I am a proven example of how a bad teacher can influence your life. Overall my life worked out pretty darn great! but...what if I had a good teacher in school?
And with the teachers I read about nowadays???