> There are boarding schools, schools of the air, etc. Serious parents can move house for catchments, etc.

Those all sound expensive. Not everyone can afford that.

> I enjoyed going to school with hunter gathers in the Kimberley .. I don't feel they held me back, I did get to learn how to fish, to hunt, to swear in several languages.

Is this something you'd expect to experience in the median US public school?