[Cajundaddy]

Like anything, diagnosing the real problem is the 1st step. Once you discover the root cause of anxiety you can address it effectively. Sometimes teaching coping skills is a better long term approach than avoidance.

Modern public school is focused pretty tightly around following directions and conforming to the mean. Not much room for kids who fall outside the mean. I have seen kids thrive in private school and home school. I have also seen a few home school train wrecks.

The greatest success story with home school I have seen were a pair of highly active boys who were pulled from PS around 3rd grade due to perceived "ADD" and suggestion that the kids be put on drugs. Mom wasn't having it so she home schooled them. Every morning started with chores, then 3 hours of studies, lunch, and then a build project or field trip in the afternoon. Both kids picked a sport and a musical instrument and went to HS group classes for these. They thrived in this environment with one being accepted to MIT and the other to UCLA. I think both are engineers today.

Roughly 1/2 of my extended family are educators and only 1/2 of those would enroll their kid in PS today. It has become a very inefficient system and life skills are being abandoned in favor of conformity.