If you trust the public school to do that - or at least do a better job of it than you could yourself - then you send them. On the other extreme, you either opt for private school or home-school.
I assume people don't make these decisions lightly. The path of least resistance is to send your kid to whatever random school they are zoned for. The next level of care is to move to an area with better schools or hope you can get into a charter school. Next level beyond that is paying a heavy price (in dollars or hours) to send them to private school or home-school. So I respect people who do that, a lot. It comes from care for their kids and ability to commit to it deeply.
As a personal observation, I was very lucky with the public school education I got in Brooklyn in the 90s. Especially in high school, I had many teachers that taught me how to think more than what to think. But that was 30 years ago and that kind of teacher was kinda old-school then. Back then, I can count on one hand the number of teachers I had that today would be categorizes as "woke crazies" (one tell-tale sign, they grade you on whether you agree with them, not the quality of your argument) but I suspect that ratio is way worse now. My kid is a toddler and I have a bunch of years to evaluate the teaching in our area, but I wouldn't think I'd be doing my son a favor sending him to a school that constrains thinking and speech rather than encourages breadth. I am very far from considering home schooling but if my choice is to basically stay home and teach my kids or to send them to a brain-deadening environment (that's an extreme, don't think it's happening in my town) I know what I'd pick.
[1] that is a combination of technical, thinking, and social skills.