Solution? Private Christian School
Part way through 1st grade we yanked our daughter our of public school.
At the time I just became unemployed and had no hope to find work either... but it was important enough to just go on faith and do it anyway.
After 1st grade, 2nd grade (found a job), 3rd grade and 4th grade we then started to Homeschool in 5th grade.
We've now homeschooled through 5th, 6th and into 7th and plan on going all the way through highschool like this.
We didn't have any social/political issues that spurred our move (I have many issues with the public schools, we just didn't personally run up against them).. but it was the schools lying. They had our daughter in a special reading comprehension program that was supposed to be 5 days a week, 1 1/2 hours each day. They were only giving her 1 hour each week.. 1 day a week. But they were telling the State of Michigan they were doing the whole program. $$$$$$$
Typical schools that are all about the money and couldn't give a hoot about the kids education.
We yanked her for that reason.
She was an F student in public school.
By the end of that 1st year she was a c+ to B- student. Next year a solid B (about where she's plateau'd now).
Not too bad.. moving from F to B.
BTW.. we use much of the same curriculum homeschooling (exact same books) that they used in the Christian Private school.
Anyway... I started out as a small post.. it got larger. Heh