The Decision to Homeschool

We had been on the fence for quite some time about homeschooling the kids. We had recently bought a house in the country. We also still had our house in the city. We had been at the "city" school district for two years and we're never highly impressed. We loved our kindergarten teacher and our 7yo seemed to enjoy her first grade experience. The truth is we were just not that impressed. So, when we bought the house in the country to flip we thought it was the perfect opportunity to send the kids to school while we worked on the house and if we liked it a lot then we would keep the house and not flip it. For the first few weeks we were thoroughly impressed. There was a deputy at the school at all times. The kids all said the pledge of allegiance and an anti-bullying pledge every day together before heading to their classrooms. From the outside it was picture perfect. Our daughter had brought home a total of 3 notes about behavior so we decided that I would go in with her and meet with the teacher to review her behavior and expectations. I was shocked and devastated as to what I was met with. She immediately was bashing my daughter for talking. Yes, talking. I asked if there were any other bad behaviors that we needed to address and she continued to talk about how my daughters talking was so annoying to HER. I will also add that my daughter was there and was hearing how terribly her teacher felt about her. The teacher at this point said that she just gets so tired of hearing her talk that she sends her to the white room most days. At this point red flags are flying. I asked her what a white room was and she essentially told me they are isolation rooms. I am absolutely NOT ok with this, especially just for being a typical chatty 7 year old girl. I was devastated my daughter was not only being singled out but also spending a good portion of her day completely alone. And the teacher never gave any ideas for solutions, she just continued to say the same thing - how my daughters talking so greatly annoyed her. I came home but didn't want to discuss the situation with my husband till the kids were all in bed. I told him that I couldn't send her back to that environment and then it all came out. Once I told my husband the entirety of what had happened he agreed our children would not be returning. When our daughter woke up in the morning we asked her side of the story. She said that the only time she wasn't really in the room was for her spelling test and that when she was in there the para would just check in on her. We called the school and told them we would be there Monday to withdraw them from school. There was absolutely no concern from the principal as to why or concern about what happened, we literally just got an email that said their belongings will be waiting at the front office. I'm sad that it took six weeks for us to figure out this happened but am glad that it pushed us to finally take the leap to homeschool.