<p>Alternatively, using your template, one could argue that local school districts do an excellent job for many kids, and many other kids are at risk in their schools from boredom that comes with academics being dumbed down to teach the slowest in the class, bad teachers with tenure, undiagnosed learning disabilities, advancing failing students to the next grade, drug-addicted peers, and just plain crazy students with guns/bombs. </p>
<p>Are all kids at school at risk? Of course not! Are enough at risk to constitute a problem worth paying attention to? I think so.</p>
<p>Homeschooling is one way some people choose to pay attention to the problem.</p>