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I remember when public schools weren't so bad either, relatively speaking. Which is odd because at the time (1970s), public schools were perceived to be falling apart - reference "Welcome Back Kotter" and that sitcom portrayed my urban public school at the time pretty accurately.

Breakfast Club it wasn't.

We even had a dog graduate with us but then again, that golden retriever graduated with the class every year it was alive - it was the school's adopted mascot, a stray taken in by one of the janitors around 1977, and it had the freedom to wander the halls and classrooms at will - something that would never be allowed today because some kid's mother would complain about her kid having some dog allergy or whatnot.

Anyway, whether you choose to send your kids to public school or private school, the responsibility for teaching your kids resides with you, the parent. From what I'm hearing, private schools might be better structured academically but they are still infested with the same politically correct nonsense as the public schools. Even in private school, you will have to deal with peanut butter bans, books about "two mommies" and a complete ban on all things Christmas - unless maybe you happen to be enrolled in a parochial Catholic school.

re: Anyway, whether you choose to send your kids to public school or private school, the responsibility for teaching your kids resides with you, the parent. From what I’m hearing, private schools might be better structured academically but they are still infested with the same politically correct nonsense as the public schools.

I totally agree. Regardless of how your kids are educated, the primary responsibility is “you”. An uninvolved parent, especially these days, is a recipe for problems. Parents with children in schools (whether they are public or private) need to be aware of the curriculum being taught and be able and willing to help their kids as needed. There are incompetent teachers in private as well as public schools. I can personally testify to that. The big shocker to me now is how much the Catholic schools have accepted an adopted the Common Core curriculum. I saw some lessons recently from a second grade class that appeared to me to be laying the foundation for promoting Marxism.