CathInfo.com

I know this may not apply to those with younger grade school children, but where we are in the South we see in the news often that a local school will have a teacher or coach getting busted for statutory rape with one or more of their students.

An acquaintance of mine who is a retired school teacher for our district told me years ago that teachers she worked with were frequently having sex with their students and that it was a common thing. She complimented my children and their behavior frequently, thanked me for homeschooling them more than once, and said she would not recommend public schools anymore. I was horrified and saddened to hear about these things going on at schools, but grateful for her honesty. I never attended a high school, but I guess it’s possible this may have been going on at our schools in California too? Thankfully though if it was I was spared that nasty gossip as a Catholic teen growing up.

We, too, live in the South, and we have never gotten one single negative comment from anyone about homeschooling.  Southerners are polite and genteel, so this may just be "manners" in some people --- people here are not, shall we say, "direct" as many Northerners are, nor are they officious know-it-alls who can't open their mouths without saying "you should...", a behavior that is endemic in the Washington, DC area, where I lived for almost a decade.  And do bear in mind that "bless your heart" is Southernese for "go *** yourself", negative speech exists, you just have to be a little more "tuned in" to pick up on it.  That said, people here are pretty "chill", and there are many aspects of culture here, that are eminently reconcilable with traditional Catholicism.  Very often, you might be the only practicing Catholic they've ever actually heard talk about their religion, and their attitude tends to be "Latin Mass, that's cool", and a black woman I worked with, when I explained to her about the Brown Scapular, was entirely sympathetic about it.  In other words, you're less likely to run into some liberal Newchurcher who will chime in, "we don't do that anymore, that's out of date, Vatican II got rid of all that, we follow our consciences instead".

I can relate to your situation, my sons went to public school unfortunately however they were taught their catechism through a homeschool course from the Sisters of SSPX, I feel better from me than a NO school that I almost sent them to. It was my only alternative and it worked out fine as there was a schedule established and adhered to

Yeah, if I cannot get my wife on board with homeschooling, then that's what I already planned on doing as well as monitor what they are learning.