And that's fair. I respect that opinion, and I don't exactly claim that my own position is much more than a subjective or personal one, which is why I was trying to conclude with an agree to disagree.

When I made my description of how your model sounded a bit depressing to me, I wasn't trying to make it as a personal or objective attack. I was just trying to convey how depressing I'd find it if my school experience was like that, I was speaking solely for myself there, not everyone else.

I also recognize that it's incredibly unlikely that the system can be anything but duct-tape-patched to eventual repeated failure if all we did was rewind things a few decades. But I also don't think that homeschooling alone is necessarily the ideal model to stick with in the long run. It's definitely a necessary option right now though, and probably the best path forward while demolishing the public school system and rebuilding the model entirely, sort of from scratch.