I'm glad a number of people had good luck with public schools.
Unfortunately, we did not have such good luck with DS7 and public school.
Given my personality and my HG+ DS7's, we chose to homeschool him instead of fight with a "We're a good school! How dare you suggest your child needs more?!" school system. It has been a good choice in his specific case, FWIW.
OTOH, DS4 will start public K next year. This is partly because he is a very different child than DS7 in terms of personality and learning needs, partly because all the K teachers are good and K is not a highly academic year, and partly because I want to request that the school test him so I don't have to pay for it.
1st grade is when we will decide what to do with DS4 for the long(ish) term. If public school will work well for him, that's where he'll go. If not, we'll homeschool or try private school.
DH and I are all about serving the individual child's needs to the best of our ability, whatever that may mean. No decision is final for us. I think that's true for many people on this forum.
YMMV...
