At some point the "agenda" got so blazingly blatant that only someone with morals who is negligent can in good conscience send their kid to public schools.
Toss is disciplinary issues, guns and other BS today against which the schools offer only paper solutions, and it's really a no brainer to either Home School or send your kids to a private school. One takes money, the other takes a little bit of time.
I remember in H.S. and middle school however sitting in class learning the same stinkin' thing for an entire week, often longer when it was clear after one explanation what was going on. But the pace was so slow b/c there were always a few that didn't grasp things. Which is fine, but it's a waste of time for those that do.
Home schooling takes less than 2 hours per day from what I've heard and is tailored to the student's pace.
Public education, sponsored by the single most powerful union in the nation, is in the process of undergoing a "market correction." People are realizing that with the advent of informational technologies, that there are many, many options of educating their children. Most are vastly superior and more effective than traditional "education" which is really a form of "indoctrination."
People are perfectly capable of coming to their own conclusions on social behaviors and those should be taught by parents. The public educational system has shirked its responsibilities by taking emphasis off of the important things, math, science, reading, music (especially classical), real arts, not some form of perversion labeled as "art", etc., and placed it in the arena of social, moral, and ethical emphases.
People that founded this nation often studied independently. "Professors" were originally people paid to pass on their knowledge of science, physics, math or any number of other objective disciplines to those paying them. Today they are people pushing their personal moral agendas in an arena for which they are given unfettered credibility when none should exist. They transcend what it is that they should be teaching which is objective, and substitute the subjective moral in its place.
Thus, people, often more intelligent than the "professors", yet w/o the credentials given them ala "the fox guarding the henhouse", can see through this Barbara Streisand.
The Founding Fathers all knew better that to maintain a free society such as ours, that a moral basis to it of the Judeo-Christian variety was absolutely crucial to its continued viability and much more so its foundation. Today's educators dismiss such notions as if somehow they are more brilliant than the Founding Fathers. Ironically, all the statistical data is so ridiculously counter to modern educators' agenda that it's laughable for anyone with more than the brain God gave a banana.
It's also why so many people balk at the notions that teachers deserve more money/pay and that the system is any longer viable. I wouldn't even think of sending my kids to public schools in any large city these days and in the smaller cities only after an extremely thorough evaluation of the curriculums. I might consider sending them to H.S. simply so that they learn how to debate and challenge those espousing nonsense.
Lazy and overwhelmed by the daily demands of work and home and family. Also, private education is not the norm, the minute your kids leave the public school arena you have crossed the Tiber into an education that has not been sanitized, pasteurized and homogenized by the textbook companies, educationists, and fearful, elected School Boards.
That's my 9-year-old. We used a pre-packaged Catholic curriculum. Since age 7 she's done most of the work herself. Mom just checks it and helps her with math or anything she's stuck on. She works quickly because she knows that when she's done she can go and play. She's often done by 11 a.m. And she's 1-2 grades ahead of her peers. Her younger sister is one year ahead of her peers.