Respecting you as I certainly do, how do you propose that we avoid having to subsidize the ideas we despise (i.e. gummint skewel curricula)? I do not want vouchers to affect private schooling because the money comes with strings attached. I also want not one tax-produced nickel going to public "education."
I'm fully in agreement with you on this issue - the public school system should be eliminated. But that said, just because the schools are failing it doesn't follow that all employees of public schools should be open to demonization. And it's just as true that articles (such as the one posted here) ridiculing homeschoolers are foolish. Too much vitriol on both sides, IMHO.