Well, my wife and I have already thrown in the towel on public education. After a couple of years of "gay tolerance," the violence in public schools, indifferent teachers who didn't want parents involved and just hearing the crap the kids were learning and, mostly, not learning - everything from pagan rituals to communist dogma - the last straw for us came when my son came home with an English assignment to "write a witch's spell." Our kids go to private religious school now. Our public schools became oversized, filled with generally disinterested teachers, started pushing homosexuality in sex ed classes (in addition to encouraging pre-marital sex and abortion), changed their teaching curricula and philosophies every year (usually with new and untested ideas), didn't allow parents to find satisfaction after raising issues, etc. etc. In short, the public schools wanted our kids to do with what they wanted. We got out, for the sake of our kids. But the homosexual thing was the last straw. My sons do NOT need to learn about anal homosexual sex in 6th grade. That was child abuse.
My kids will never go to a public school. My kids are in a religous private school and are learning at a pace which is 1-2 grades higher than that of the local public schools. BTW the new district super was fired after 3 months because he wanted to hold the teachers and principals accountable for the test scores. I just wish that I had vouchers in my state. (CA)