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"My daughter had always been a good student. Always loved school. Then suddenly, in the fourth grade... just, kind of quit. She wasn't interested in school anymore. She'd struggle to get out of bed, she'd fake being sick. Getting her to complete her homework was a total battle."

So the documentarian and his wife requested a meeting with their daughter's teacher after a bad math test. They knew she wasn't working at the level she was capable of. Her mother asked her what she was feeling in math class. She said "I just look up, and I'm not interested."

"Now, later... I'll tell her that school seems meaningless now, but later, when she's applying to college or when she's looking for a job, she'll understand what this was all for. She needs to take this seriously now because one day, she'll see that this will all make sense..."

"But after spending two years working on this film, I now worry that these things that I've told my daughter and my son are a lie."

“By the time they reach an age to think about what they'd like to do, most kids have been thoroughly misled about the idea of loving one's work. School has trained them to regard work as an unpleasant duty.” http://paulgraham.com/love.html 

This is depressing. Feel like I’m failing my kids as I know the system doesn’t work/deliver as expected, and I can’t seem to find what’s the right thing to do. Is homeschooling really the best option right now?

System does not deliver? Who does not deliver what? What is supposed to be delivered? A money-happiness-abundance-love-bliss-pleasure machine?