Growing up, I encountered about 50...currently, I know 6. I was taught at home at an early age, spent most of my years in private school, and attended a few public schools as I got older. I stand by my comments re: home schooling with one exception. Parents should supplement their children's education. For instance, each evening I teach my kid Spanish. In a few years, he'll learn Mandarin at home too.
The public schools are a huge failure - in almost every way that is measurable.
Not where my kid attends. I chose to live here because of the excellent quality of the school district. In addition to the school district, I chose to live in an area that feeds into the best high school in the district. Since I'm already paying taxes to support public schools, it would be foolish to pay for an inferior education at a private school too.
I'm not saying that you can't get a decent education in the public schools. You are obviously a parent who is very involved in your child's life and that is the key to any education. My kids have done very well in college and life after college. However, that is more a result of mine and my wife's investment in their lives as opposed to the public school. As I said, our public school is one of the top ones in Ohio. The public schools are a government bureaucracy that disdains competition. It's failure is inevitable. And whether you know it or not, unless your're doing something to counter it, your kid is getting indoctrinated. I'm not sure why my tax dollars should be used for something that I have to counter when the kid comes home.