I think it depends on what you are looking for.
This is what I think too. Our public schools offer one or two years of acceleration in core subjects. But, there are overachieving PG kids there - because of the environment in my general neighborhood (plentiful resources in the area, DE/CC, motivated parents, PG peer groups, industry mentoring for STEM subjects) as well as tutoring/afterschooling etc.
In our case, we do not use the PS. Things were not hard enough for my child to put forth a meaningful effort in order to learn and he was developing a poor work ethic as a result. How my child was spending his days from 8:00 AM-3:00 PM began to matter to him at a very young age.
