With a new school year looming, public schools will be brimming with students. The National Center for Education Statistics estimated last fall more than 50 million students would attend public school. Yet the topic of education seems as controversial these days as any other politically-riddled issue. Math and science scores continue to lag behind other countries and as the transgender agenda continues to infiltrate schools, more families will look for school options elsewhere.
When my oldest son was heading into kindergarten, I began to review public schools in terms of academic rigor. Although we lived in an area where the public school students score better than in other parts of the country, the statistics were still disheartening. To top it off, he was a classic, active boy; I feared he would be given an inaccurate label and his “boyness” discouraged, rather than praised.
