Thank you for the reply!
I sent three kids through public school, and wish mightily that I had not. They have been indoctrinated with Democrat party ideals (I have been registered Dem for 50 years now) and view all things through an atheist and politically liberal lens. Given that our conservatives are being denigrated for simple moral stances, and their lifestyles greatly hampered, and given that I believe in freedom, I oppose our children being politically indoctrinated by issues such as climate change, vaccination, blind trust in our obviously deeply corrupt government (right and left), and the like.
I used to think as you do about public schooling. Support the community! No child left behind! Until one of my children was funneled into restrictive learning situations because he couldn't quite comply with the onerous rules, was required to get medication for his supposed focus issues or else, was required to get western med treatment for something we were treating naturally, and essentially was so grievously harmed by western medications and school-based incarceration that he did not survive his twenties. No he did not do drugs. No he did not kill himself. Iatrogenic disease is killing our children, and the schools are, in many cases, forcing those dangerous drugs on them.
So you mentioned that your child is having the types of difficulties my son had beginning in fourth grade. His schooling was a nightmare for the entire family after that. I wish I had removed him. And now that I have had this experience, I find that many others have had the same. We are marginalized, judged and somewhat invisible, anmd there are a great many of us. There must be alternatives for children who are struggling to perform in those settings. As it is, we lose our best and brightest, our most innovative and energetic, to lifelong medicalization and psychotherapy. It's nuts.
I am so sorry for your loss. That must be devastating. My heart goes out to you. Sending so much love.