Public schools should EDUCATE! Parents should do the 'preparing.'
In California last Tuesday, the annual test results were released and only 21% of the schools here passed.
Course only one paper I read even covered it.
The large local paper seems more interested in covering up school failure then letting the tax-payers know where their money is wasted.
My wife is already teaching my 3.x year old how to write letters and numbers and her first comment was that she could see how inefficient the public schools are. She said he gets it right away and keeps on moving on.
We plan on homeschooling. Either way, there is no chance in hell that my kids attend public schools. If the schools focused on reading, writing, and math, then we wouldn't have these problems. Instead, they spend innumerable hours on "how to get along", "why one minority group's morals supercede the rest of the nation's", "how to 'gear up' for sexual immorality", on top of listening to all sorts of revisionist history that simply isn't true.
"Obsolete" is a good word to describe our public school systems. "Defunct" is another.