Actually, I see a number of churches doing this in our area, and others not tied to a specific church but church-oriented. The latter has had a fair amount of help from various churches.
The interesting thing I see is that people who are unchurched are pulled into orbit, they like a lot of people are looking for an alternative to the disaster that is the public school system. You want to evangelize your town? Start a K-12. The evangelization is indirect but sometimes thats the most effective kind. Build the world you want to live in and people will come.
The point is first, that there is no need for defeatism. God is good. Pray, make a plan, and go forward. Don’t wait for the government to clean up its act, build it yourself. And the second point is that we don’t really have a choice. The alternative becomes clearer by the day that giving our children to the public schools for the formative years of their lives is to undercut everything we are trying to do.
If you are serious, public school is increasingly not a choice anymore. Home school, or look for a parochial school or a church-friendly private school. Grandparents may have to help.
Do wintertime’s comments do the cause of homeschooling more harm or more good? That is all I want the answer to.