After zoom school, attempts to make covid vaccines mandatory for school, and a creepy DEI task force, we decided to homeschool and took our kids out of the local charter school just before they nuked their entire Waldorf curriculum to conform to some anti-racism program instituted by the DEI board. That DEI board was assigning the teachers tasks like "report on your microaggressions over the last week," which sounded to me like a self-criticism session straight out of communism.

We tried online homeschool programs that were able to access state funds, only to discover that they made you fill out checklists to track about 350 learning items for each school year so that they could demonstrate to the state bureaucracy that the money wasn't being used fraudulently. We opted out of that tedious and idiotic nonsense.

So now we have one income and pay for all our childrens' education expenses out of pocket. Still, my children are happy and learning well. I just wish we didn't have to pay into a system that does nothing for us.

Like so many other issues these days, the reform of public school system will not be easy to accomplish. You can't appeal for reform to politicians with the goal of providing a better education since the current system has nothing to do with education, but everything to do with patronage, power, social control and, frankly, demoralization.

I agree that the best bet is to push hard for complete abolishment of public education (especially federal bureaus of education) maybe through constitutional amendments. Any sort of tinkering at the edges will just shift the graft and corruption into a new form.