You may wish to explore the private school option. Possibly if enough other parents also choose to do this, it may provide an opportunity to carpool. It may also signal to the public middle school that additional challenge is needed to keep students learning and prevent planting the seeds of underachievement.
For your own DC, yes. Sending a message to the district won't work, though. Basic Aid districts in CA get their funding through means other than daily attendance counts; they actually lose money per student enrolled. Ours openly invites parents who don't like the options to leave for private, since it results in more money per kid left in the district.
I sympathize, this is ridiculous.
