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I say again, the current price is $10,000 per kid per year. Your plan would turn this country into Afghanistan in a generation or two. Quite a high percentage of 'parents' out there don't care whether their kids get educated or not. I suspect a Libertarian would say, "If their parents don't care then why should I". That attitude is exactly the one held by Anton Levay and his little pentagram club too.

Where should I begin?

One, Afganistan is in poor shape for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the Soviet Red Army. Because I might oppose compulsary tax-funded public school does not mean I don't want children to be taught. This does not turn the United States into Afganistan. The only nation in the world who could do that was the Soviet Union, and they aren't around anymore, thank God. For you to suggest that libertarians are going to turn America into Afganistan is a hell of a conceit. That's a non sequitor regardless.

Two, Anton LeVey was a out to make a buck. His "little pentagram club" as you call it was to have been a cult not unlike that of the Scientology cult of Lafayette Hubbard or Trancendential Meditation of the Maharishi Whatevertheheck. Actually, LeVey's club was the inspiration for Hubbards pseudo-religious cult. LeVey didn't care about children getting education becasuse he was out to pick the pockets of unsuspecting supersticious dupes, neither did Hubbard.

Libertarians are all in support of home school and private schools not because we don't want children to get an education, but because we do.

Please go jump in the proverbial lake, thanks.

Actually the Thomas Jefferson solution of a national charitable initiative for education was a good idea. I would prefer smaller scale state or private charitable education funds with purely voluntary contributions. That way those that cannot pay for education would have a way to get the education they desire.

$10,000 a year is a very expensive education. A bit of private sector competition could reduce the cost of education and increase results. You really have to wonder when I can take a child out of school, homeschool them for just three hours a day and have them gain two years of academic achievement over their friends of the same age in public schools in just nine months. This with no more than $200 in education materials.

Education should be compulsory not because government says you must go to school. Education should be personally compulsory because you desire to eat food and live with a roof overhead. Education would have more status and value because it would have to be purchased like a pair of athletic shoes. A competitive vertical market would make our youth the very best educated in the world.