@WTM, I know. Where I struggle with it is this:
1. My kid isn't outside the box. Either by nature or nurture, she's still taking pretty much what she'd be taking at the B&M school. I feel like so many homeschool parents do all this amazing creative stuff that reflects their kids' personalities and looks totally different than a public school education. If I'm not careful, I can feel sensitive that her education looks much more traditional. (To be fair, we've only been homeschooling a year, so it's not like I've had ample opportunity to deviate. This year was also an experiment to see if she liked homeschooling, so we mirrored what she would take in the B&M in case she went back next year. But she likes it!) I feel like there's this expectation that my homeschooled via PSA child will look different than that, and that because she doesn't she will be rejected on the face of it.
2. Aside from vendor choices, which I acknowledge to be a big issue, I'm not sure how different her courses would look. Freely admitted here is that if Blue Tent were not a vendor, I would be PSA'ing in a heartbeat. But BTO has been a very good fit for my kid, so I'm feeling like between them, AIM Academy, and DEs we can make the public charter work. Well, aside from physics, gov't, and econ, hence the post. And really, it's physics that haunts me. I'm willing to deal with a less than stellar gov't/econ since they will likely be a semester each.