If, as this article states, 7 to 15 percent of kids every year are starting to be homeschooled. It's only a matter of time, if this trend continues, that people will start to say, hey, wait a minute and rally towards the dismantling of the NEA and other organizations. The teacher's unions are scared right now. And as this gets bigger and bigger, the clout of the public will be huge. See this post as an example. We have to keep libs out of power.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588706/posts?page=40#40
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162267/posts
"We're Going to Take Things Away From You on Behalf of the Common Good": Her Thighness
I agree completely, but I will add this:
Pubbies are not above throwing good money at bad public schools in exchange for votes. That's no way to make the NEA disappear.
Well, actually the article says that homeschooling is growing by 7 to 15 percent each year. So if we had 100 students homeschooling this year, we might have 107 to 115 next year and so on. If 7 to 15 percent of all kids were starting to homeschool each year, the public school system would be defunct in a matter of several years. As it is, estimates have the total number of homeschooling kids around 2 to 5% nationally. My numbers are out of date so someone correct me if you have newer estimates. It is hard to count homeschoolers because the laws are different in every state and not all are actually registered as homeschoolers.