Who says you have to follow the school's curriculum. Send your 2nd grader to Kumon Math. It's relatively affordable and your child will be out achieving the other kids in no time.
I will probably resort to some other method to make sure my child understand and possibly even enjoys math. I realize that.
But I believe I deserve a right to be upset because one path would give my son a decent education and the other will cost me $1000 a year to fix.