Consolidated / centralized schools are the problem. That’s why government has so much control. That’s what home schoolers are running away from. Get them off the internet as much as you can.
Big schools force integration and all this nonsense woke crap. None of that would take hold if schools were decentralized. That’s why the bigger cities have the big problems.
My elementary school had approximately 150 kids in 7 grades. It was so small, that all got recess at the same time, it had two playgrounds. One for the 1st 2nd and 3rd grades, Another with the older kids. I can remember teachers I had from other years talking to me before school. Talking about my sister, or my little brother 3 years behind. I knew them, they knew me and my parents. It was like a larger family, and I should know. I am one of 7 in mine.
After that experience, we were shoved into a Jr High with kids from every elementary school in town. I was lost, and never found my footing again. School after elementary was hell. I hated every single day, except for gym class. I begged for my parents to let me quit and get a job. I actually had offers from family. My one Uncle had a backhoe and hauling business. He had all the equipment and prepped sites for homes or built roads and ponds. He offered to make me his apprentice at 15. SCHOOL WAS HELL. Every single good memory of school was of after or before school activities.