I'd like to make one suggestion. Please learn a little more about what's going on in public schools.
K-12 is increasingly mediocre because the preferred theories and methods are dysfunctional. They were designed that way; or they turned out that way. Either way, our Education Establishment does not seem interested in making things better. They're more interested in cajoling the public into accepting whatever is offered.
To summarize, you can't teach children to read with Sight- words (or whatever it may be called in your area); you can't teach arithmetic with Reform Math (in any of its many varieties); you can't teach knowledge with Constructivism (under any of its many names).
This stuff is to education what sitting is to running.
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What to do? Learn how these various gimmicks work. You will no longer respect them or the people pushing them.
My main education site Improve-Education.org has articles on most of these methods. See "Top 10 Worst Ideas in Education" HERE for the list, and a recommended article on each idea.
Or obtain a copy of "Saving K-12-- What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?" Available on AMAZON.
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Update: "Saving K-12" is available as e-book on Kindle.
https://www.amazon.com/Saving-K-12-Happened-Public-
Schools-ebook/dp/B079YHYQ87/ref
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