In the second place, public education in the USA is dead...Believe it.
The best thing parents can do is forget the hell of incompetent teachers, socialistic agendas, laughable curriculum, sexually deviant teachers who leave the hard sciences...geography...literature etc in the dust, and policially correct classrooms with no pledges to the flag, words of God or the Golden Rule.
Public education is just a pig trough for the teachers unions and the administration to enrich themselves as they couldn't get a job in the real world.
Inteeligent people are either home schooling their children when money is tight or sending them to worthy private schools that can instruct them on the beauty of America and it's great potential of individualistic endeavour.
PUBLIC EDUCATION IS DEAD!!!