"The homeschooling movement intends to DESTROY the educational establishment. "
Hmmm. the homeschool market share is about 1-2% of kids.
Will Macs destroy the PC? I dont think so.
"Actually the rise of "Big Education" has destroyed it already, but it retains a death grip on the children of the country."
Correct, but I dont see that changing soon. We spend more and more on education than ever before. Ideas to fix the schools and reform them fundamentally, ie, vouchers and school choice, need to be given a chance - but are not.
Too many are complacent.
" These parents are willing to pay their taxes and not receive benefits because they feel so strongly that public schools do more harm than good."
I feel strongly that something has to be done.
As long as the sheeple vote Democrat, and confuse "good education" with "more spending on public school bureaucracy" we will get nowhere.
It is doing just that! Public and private schools have a lot to offer but a lot of parents are bypassing these advantages in trying to shelter their kids from real world experiences. My contention is, that if parents have schooled their kids correctly in moral values, they won't have to worry so much about the influences of drugs, sex and rock n' roll.
Gifted and talented kids, indeed, do well in homeschooled learning environments BUT not all kids are G&T and parents are perhaps the worst judge of assessing that fact due to inherent bias. Kids that are not G&T do much better in homogeneous groupings: Private or public school classrooms.