Whether it was fine or not - and I would say it wasn’t - the system is never going back. We have two choices - submit to it (school reform is an absurd activity that has always failed to produce anything except more money for the left) or secede family by family from the corrupt and decaying government school system.
My wife taught for 32 years and will gladly argue about how much the government has screwed up our education system. I graduated high shool in ‘59 and college in ‘68 (3 1/2 year interval for service). I was academically well prepared for college unlike many of today’s students who need remedial courses before they actually start college courses. The trend in some schools systems around Dallas, Texas is to lower grading standards to “encourage” students to stay in school. I’m sure that will help these students succeed in a world labor marketplace. Of course, since American students rate near the bottom of the pile in Math and Science compared to the rest of the world. lots of luck.
Homeschooling our children is the best education decision my wife and I have ever made.