Honestly, I'm to the point of thinking the whole thing is a lost cause. So called public education doesn't work without a cohesive culture with strong families and a shared tribal or national identity. We no longer have that in the US. Its making a comeback (see Return of the Strong Gods) but its not gonna be uniform.

The goal in public education was to create a uniform system to create "good" citizens and workers. I would argue that isn't really working anymore as the post war consistence is to oppose nationalism in favor of cultural appreciation and deconstruction. Even when I was in school we were being taught how terrible our past was. Of course the most important lessons were ignored but it was very anti-western civilization even back in the 90s. Its way worse now.

I wish private schools were better but in my experience they just copy the curriculum and only really change things on the margins. This is especially true of so called "Christian" education. I am curious how Muslim schools in the US are designed. I suspect they are much less statist.

Homeschooling really is the way if you can do it. Many people learned they could do it during Covid. But even if you can't just augmenting public education is required.