What’s your personal opinion on public school/private/homeschool

I love my kids public school and all the amazing supportive teachers there, I wouldn’t ever pull them out of school because even as someone who’s college educated I still know I’m just personally ill equipped to homeschool and I couldn’t in good conscious take away their friends they’ve grown to love. Butttt I feel similarly enough that I have plans to implement my own lessons to fill in the gaps of public school education because I don’t fully trust the way schools teach, esp history. I don’t feel bad saying that most parents who homeschool are ill equipped to do so, I think homeschooling needs way more guardrails in the US because it’s currently failing so many kids

My kids go to public school. Several of them have had IEPs. Anything but public school would be/have been a disservice to them

I feel a civic responsibility towards public schools. We pay taxes to keep them going. The curriculum is accessible to everyone. Education that anyone and everyone can access is important. In practice it isn't fully egalitarian, but it's the closest we have to it.

In some private schools the curriculum isn't regulated, so they can teach whatever they want. Some places divert government funding towards private schools, which undercuts the public system. Public can work, but it needs funding and government commitment. There are nordic countries that are strictly a one tier / public system - no private schooling at all, their education doesn't suffer, and what happens is that the people who would normally choose to send their children to private school suddenly have a vested interest in ensuring they have the best public schools, when it's the only option they have.

My husband and I had wonderful public school experiences. Unfortunately the district we’re in is consistently one of the worst ranked in the country so we chose private school and have had a great experience so far for kinder and 1st grade. We’ll continue with that unless something negative happens. And homeschooling isn’t an option as I know my children wouldn’t thrive in that setting. I’m not equipped to teach them what public or private school can teach them even though I’m college educated. I’m not sure how public school makes factory workers 🤔

Unfortunately our public school system is not accessible for my children at this point. There is one teacher's aid for a while class for like an hour a day and my kids need individual attention. That doesn't speak to the quality of teaching they do there just to an issue with the system that doesn't care about children with additional needs. My kids are being held back in kindergarten for one more year so they can continue to access specialized services. After that we have no choice but to home school or go to public because private is 20 thousand dollars.

Hopefully (idc enough) is at 0% wth 😅

Each have their advantages and disadvantages and each family should choose what best suits their lifestyle and children’s needs