Get a decent education, get a decent job that gives you an adequate living and is reasonably useful to the society, and I think that's enough. A real education will certainly help you to raise properly any children that you may have.
There's more to life than one simple english class over a span of 12 years.
Public schools raise the kids in a box, with the same kids as last year, and the year before that. Kids need to get out, see, and learn about the real world, not the illusionary world of liberal utopia. The world should be their class room, and the public sector their teachers.
You're one little speck in the fabric of time. A year from now, those students probably won't even remember your name.