it's a field in which the failures regularly, and astonishingly, insist that they should be able to regulate the successful.
As a "successful" homeschooler I laughed at this. Too true!
Go to this link and click on your state to discover that your state system is also failing horribly: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/
MS is just the worst among a 50 state constellation of failures.