This seems very normal.....
Our town has officially lost its mind.
Do you think there's an audience in Lakewood for an elementary school or mesivta that takes General Studies seriously?
On par with Chofetz Chaim, Torah V’daas or YBH?
I'm honestly thinking of moving simply to find an elementary school that takes its English seriously enough that kids finish on par with 8th graders from OOT communities. It's embarrassing.
Maybe I'll open my own school.
If you live in lkwd, way does your location say Israel??!??
Regarding your question, you shouldn’t be bashing lkwd schools as a whole, as there are elementary schools that have a robust/solid English department, though your child may not get accepted into the school.
Besides, you have to decide if the main thing your looking for in a school is it’s English department or the לימודי קודש, as sometimes (though not always) it’s one or the other.
Also, you should be thinking about where your child will fit in better, have better friends (same type of hashkafos) and walk out after graduating 8th grade as a happy, healthy young man ready [to take on the world!] to enter high school.