OK Mr. Formal Education expert, first we have to define what constitutes good formal education before we can argue about the best means to achieving this end.
Perhaps we could agree that a good formal education should prepare children for life. But how should we prepare children for life? To answer this question, we need to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to know, love and serve God in this life so that we can be happy forever with Him in the next. This is a simple objective truth.
So any formal education that doesn't center on helping children to know, love and serve God in this life is a poor education, and any education that completely ignores the purpose of life, such as godless government education, is a fraud.
And so it seems that leaving formal education "to the pros" is a mistake of the highest order.
Doesn't the mandatory gummint skewel curriculum at Lancaster, Massachusetts include, ummm, how to put this delicately(???) "fisting?" It is only a matter of time before the failed local motel is acquired by PS 666 as its "laboratory for sex education." Hands (or whatever) on edumakashun, don'tja know!
Are they teaching witchcraft yet as Massachusetts culture???
Not that your state's gummint edumakashun is any worse than our state's. You do an admirable job of putting the hay down where the goats can get it.
God bless you and yours, now and always.