Damned shame that after almost 30 years nothing has been accomplished, overall, to improve the situation.
As the parent of an Eagle Scout, IIRC, I'm sure you are painfully aware of the situation and took the same kind of steps aforementioned.
All one has to do is take a look at the sorry conditions of the school system in Detroit, MI.
To put the blame for that fiasco on anything other than progressive educational dogma, which has been the ONLY guiding factor in Detroit for the past 40 years, is patently ridiculous.
... and true to form, Rachel Maddow, on MSNBC the other night, blamed the sorry state of the Detroit schools, and in particular the closing of a High School for pregnant girsl in Detroit, on "conservatives"!
Go farking figure ...
We don't have a chance with both extremes trumpeting that kind of totally irresponsible journalism.
(Yes ... I watch MSNBC nightly just to get a picture of both extremes, I already know what divisive BS is being slobbered in the public trough from the other extreme)