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I am not a wealthy fellow, and this was done quite modestly, and without a huge time investment, either. The most I ever paid for educating four children for a year was about $2,000, and often way less.

My own education was in public school, and I think it was OK, though moonbat education policies were becoming very evident in the late '60s. Scratching English literature for Communications/Media, indeed.

Not everyone can home educate or put their kids in private school, and I appreciate that, ergo my concern. Do you really think the individual states are that backward?

We benefit from a mixed bag of policies. The best rises to the top, to be imitated at will.

Mississippi will have a lot more money for bailing out their own school districts, if we make state government primary.

My thought was about these parents who can’t home school, for whatever reason be it their own inabilities or their careers.

What are their choices?

You see I face this now. In Mississippi you really don't want to put your kids in public schools So private is the way we go at 8-10K a year. And we still pay school taxes. It is not an issue unknown to me.

I want the DOE fixed or replaced so that Public schools, the ones we pay for, are worth using. I also want to know that my son can get to MIT without the fact the he went to Mississippi with different standard holding him back. The SAT and ACT help, but even after that schools still look at records.

A national standard with a minimum bureaucracy can do it. It would not be a bad thing. What we have now does not work, but it does not mean it is invalid as a concept.