Amil – with all due respect (seriously) it never to fails that someone laud the public schools superiority over our schools in regard to whatever the topic of the day is. I’m not sure what sparks the need to generate these comments but it is obviously not fact based, as you cannot have spoken to even a random sampling of each, nor read any studies. Usually it just comes from people’s stereotypical beliefs/thoughts/imaginations of what they have decided about the Jewish system at large versus what they imagine the public school system to look like everywhere.
I obviously cannot speak for the larger Jewish world, but I will say that among the 8 or more frum schools that I have first hand feedback from, the feedback drastically varies from teacher to teacher, not Jewish school to public school. And in addition to that, I have heard from public school teachers that they have about a 50% attendance rate (again, a very small sampling) and there is not much learning getting done.
In the 10 public schools I worked at over this decade, I would say the ability of the teachers just to put together a classroom website varied from highly skilled to barely capable. Your situation of school preparedness sounds wonderful and unique.
Sorry to pick on you as an example, but this undertone of inferior Jewish schools, inferior teachers, inferior Jewish music, inferior Jewish books etc is just a mantra that some people inject into conversations all over the place, like subliminal messages inserted in frames of a movie reel, and repeated often enough, it lays a false and unfortunate foundation for further negative attitudes toward the Jewish communities at large.