Starve the beast. Homeschool. It worked for us.I agree with homeschool for the sake of the children but unless nearly everyone does it I don't see how it starves the beast. You still have to support the beast with your taxes, even if your kids don't go to their nazi schools.
Homeschooling starves the beast because the public schools rely on headcount to get federal matching funds. Hence the pathetic whining about and efforts to discredit homeschooling. It’s not just about ideology. Money being fungible, their addiction to it is in the total income stream, so for any net lowering of headcount they have to either adjust to the new lower overall income stream, or they have to get local taxes raised to cover the gap. Naturally they will normally try the latter, but the crunch is upon us all, and local tax referendums are not popular now. Never waste a perfectly good crisis.