My parents tightened their belts and sent me to parochial school in California for 8th grade, as 7th grade in a public junior high had been something of a disaster, even though I was in mentally gifted. Then we moved to Iowa, where public schools still had a lot of that 1950’s character (this was the mid 1970’s) and parochial wasn’t needed.
Good on them.
We thought about both sides of that argument but my wife really wanted to home-school and she has had a blast doing it. On the other hand, I have had to take some rough jobs to keep the finances stable. God has been good but it has been very rough.
If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.