Then by all means, I suggest you go right on ahead and send your kid to public school. But there are many of us here who feel very strongly that public school is not only a waste of our kids time, but counterproductive and dangerous as well. And we've come to resent people of your opinion who have tried to limit our options for our children. At first trying to make homeschooling illegal, fighting educational vouchers, frowning on charter schools-- people unable to see the state of public education, trying to force the rest of us to remain in that failed system...