[Fern]

I don't think kids have to be disenfranchised by learning in public schools. But they could sometimes use help discovering their passion, what makes them excited.

While i'm a product of public school system, and i always did well, i don't feel my mind was really opened up and expanded and excited about learning until i got into college.

The problem of parents taking more or less responsibility for educating their children is not an isolated problem. There are many,many single families, often with female heads of households, who are doing everything they can to just keep the family together and put food on table. There is often very little energy left over for additional "education." So the high divorce rate and the disinterest of many divorcee fathers isn't helping.

Or, in another scenario, both parents are so busy working the kids are left to fend for themselves.