[Diva Betsy Ross]

How about give the parent's back their tax money and let them put their child in the school that will be suit each child.

It is time to break the monopoly and let parents have the choice.

It is the only fair thing to do.

Then developmentally disabled, gifted, slow learners, average students all get what they need.

Everyone then has a choice. What in the world is strong with that? Then we can stop extorting taxes from people with no children to pay for a bloated top heavy sytem, for which they see no results, and they receive barley any benefits.

I homeschool two children with two computers, a TV and $500.00 year. I could do it for less if I had to.

[nopardons]

I shan't get into the homeschool " battle " with you on this thread; it's NOT the place for it.

The taxes, for school/education, that's the most horrid/onerous are the state and local ones.

"FAIR" is a word used by children and Liberals.

Unfortunately, what's wrong with a parents' free for all, re education, is that many parents are incapable of/uninterested in homeschooling, there aren't enough good schools, extant,to take all of those who wish to transfer to them ( and YES, I am for vouchers, BTW ),and to some extent, the nation has more than a wee vested interest in the education of the populace. Something needs to be done...it's just that the teacher unions and Liberals have a far stronger, more vocal, much more active voice now and stop everything that SHOULD be done.