This may be their society but it does not need to be yours, or your child’s. If you can afford to secede from it and you would want to, do it. Middle school is

This may be their society but it does not need to be yours, or your child’s. If you can afford to secede from it and you would want to, do it. Middle school is an educational wasteland to an even greater extent than high school is. Homeschooling and unschooling are things that are absolutely within the capability of an average middle class family if it’s a priority and by the time primary school is over the necessity of school as daycare or a holding pen for children while their parents work is mostly over.