After D spent three completely wasted years in our public middle school, we pulled our kids from our district. I had spent many, many hours doing research so that I could speak intelligently with our district administration about what I felt was missing from the curriculum, with no positive results. When D was in 9th & S was in 7th, we moved them to an excellent regional parochial school about 20-25 minutes away. The education was fabulous, and D credits her ability to excel at a top 20 school to her high school education.
S excelled in middle school, but he didn’t want to stay for high school. We put him in a neighboring public school district under district of choice. The high school was the same distance from our house as our district’s high school, but the curriculum was so much better … in my opinion. I guess everyone has different ideas about what education should include. My friends were fine leaving their kids in the district, and that was a choice that worked for them.
If you have the option of district of choice, you might want to investigate. My neighbors teach in a neighboring district and have decided against both our district & the one where they teach … in favor of another neighboring district with a curriculum they prefer.