I’m not surprised, american public schools can end up with a lot of pathologies that can’t be practically addressed by a parent outside of “flee and try literal

I’m not surprised, american public schools can end up with a lot of pathologies that can’t be practically addressed by a parent outside of “flee and try literally anything else”. My public elementary school was outright hostile to my existence, with teachers ignoring/enabling my bullies and then trying to punish me when I started fighting back viciously at the prompting of my exasperated father. “Anarcho-tyranny” is a good way to sum up my experience. You’ll likely find it unsurprising that I am adhd(I) (fully evaluated) and almost certainly autistic to some degree (not fully evaluated as there’s not much for me to gain on a diagnosis), though these revelations wouldn’t come until decades later when I learned what these things actually meant instead of media tropes. Prior to that I was considered “shy/very introverted”. Homeschool was straight up not an option for me, since we were a single parent/provider household. I’m extremely lucky that a charter middle school opened up around 4th grade. It was amazing to see what sort of environment occurred when both teachers and children were held accountable and can and would be removed. There’s also the effects of the natural bias of having most of the children there having active and concerned parents involved, which I imagine also plays a big role in the ultimate quality of the education homeschoolers now get, as opposed to what seemed to be more prominently religious/paranoid motivations when I was a child. Also fortunately my public high school was, mostly, tame.