I love/hate hearing this. I feel for the kids that are there, but is a great confidence booster. I haven’t stepped into a school since I was there and for a long time I questioned why I was homeschooling. My govt school experience wasn’t super traumatic so I never felt like I had a deep reason to homeschool other then feeling like it was the right decision. And part of me always wanted to just go sit in on a current class and confirm why I was. The past 3 years have confirmed my decision for me so I no longer need that but still interesting to hear how it really is in those buildings.

We also need to remember that just because kids are at school for more time doesn't mean that the kids are getting more teaching time. When you count time between classes, kid disruptions, teacher dealing with individual kids, lunch, P.E., etc. it is amazing how much unproductive time exists. If you add teachers putting in filler time, frequently less than half of the time is actually productive learning time. If you take out the time wasted on P.C. garbage, it is even worse.