Why We Gave up on One of the Top Public School Districts in The Nation

Todd Mitchell
15 min readOct 9, 2021

By the beginning of our son’s Kindergarten year, we’d moved an hour away, left our family and friends behind, and holed up in a tiny apartment to wait out construction on our new home, all to put him in one of the highest-rated school districts in the nation. In the middle of the summer that followed, we hit the reset button and decided to do the job ourselves.

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Todd Mitchell

Dad / Comedy at End of the Bench Sports, Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, and more / Find me on a disc golf course