Sounds like my home towns school district. A student cut another students throat a few years back. The student survived, a couple of years later a student raped another student in the bathroom at that same school. It was reported and the school suspended the boy without calling the police. The girl who happened to be a ward of the state and lived in a group home told the group home as soon as they picked her up, they called the police and took her to the hospital to be treated. Some school districts are really bad. There were many reasons I home schooled my children and things like this encouraged me to keep going when it was tough.

A few years ago we moved and we are now in a different school district, sadly this one is just as bad. Meth has been found on the ground in the hallways of the elementary schools here.

My middle child really wanted to go to Public school for high school. So I told her if she could get accepted as a transfer into a good school district I would consider it. I did my research and we did find an excellent public school for her to attend. Even I enjoyed her going there. They still do Parent Teacher conferences in high school in that school district. ( I had never heard or seen that before) What does it translate to, high parental involvement, which helps children achieve their potential. They offered really great programs for her but being that she was home schooled before attending, her teachers always told me how different it was to teach her than the other students, they were just guiding her, not really having to teach. She could just be given the assignment and no instructions on it and do it and understand it. My children have a love for learning that was not killed by all the tests. The tests in high school are the ones we have always had, not like it is now in the lower grades. Scantron, ISTEP, CATs, NOVA and I know there is another one I am forgetting about. Those are the tests that my states uses every year to see where kids are at. IREAD is the other one I think.