[mrs. a]

"is quietly transforming the landscape of science education in the US, subverting and possibly threatening the public school system..."

If the US public school system is really so fragile that it is threatened by the small minority who homeschool and attend parochial schools, then they need to make some major changes, like, yesterday.

[TomSmedley]

If the US public school system is really so fragile that it is threatened by the small minority who homeschool and attend parochial schools, then they need to make some major changes, like, yesterday.

Cornered carnivors, and ideologs on their last legs, are most vicious and dangerous. Like Peter Pan's Tinkerbelle, public education will disappear when enough folks simply quit believing in it. As my favorite marxist jesuit put in,

Some fortuitous coincidence will render publicly obvious the structural contradictions between stated purposes and effective results in our major institutions. People will suddenly find obvious what is now evident to only a few . . . Like other widely shared insights, this one will have the potential of turning public imagination inside out. Large institutions can quite suddenly lose their respectability, their legitimacy, and their reputation for serving the public good. It happened to the Roman Church in the Reformation, to royalty in the Revolution. The unthinkable became obvious overnight: that people could and would behead their rulers. (Illich's "Tools for Conviviality", p. 111)

[wintertime]

, subverting and possibly threatening the public school system..."
( from the article)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I sincerly hope so.

Hopefully, enough parents will abandon the government schools that the government school system will collapse like the Berlin Wall.