Thank you for your thoughts. I'm worried as is my wife. I guess I think I can handle wacky teachers and administrators (they "encourage" involved parents, wait until my kids enroll, and we'll see if they like it!). I'm really worried about their exposure to the crass culture of our world as expressed by other students (who cannot be expelled for the most part). I don't want to see 14 years of dedicated (and undoubtedly flawed) parenting and nurturing go down the tubes in 4 years of govt. high school. And I don't want to take my kids "out" of the community they grew up in and deprive them of the extra-curricular activities their grade school buddies will be enjoying. Got some more time to make a decision. Thanks for letting me vet!
Sure. We moved last year, and had at least 8 high schools to choose from in our new area. We did a thorough investigation of each of them. Another thing to do, is talk to involved parents of current high schoolers. Their attitude towards the school tends to be pretty accurate.
Check into homeschooling resources around you. You might be lucky enough to have a homeschool sports league around. My sibs and I weren't really into sports after we got too old for the community softball teams, but I know it's important to some folk.