Well, thankfully homeschooling is on the uprise and also more parents are finding ways to have their kids educated in schools that are in keeping with their own values. It is wrong that these parents have yet to get any tax breaks when they elect these options. It seems that the government has no intention of loosening its grasp on power over the public school system and that is unfortunate. I am glad to see that more parents are circumventing the government schools. I would like to see it happen to the extent that the public school system would implode, but I think that is unlikely. What concerns me in the face of this trend though, is that the government will actually try to find a way to prevent alternative education in the interest of furthuring it's own agenda which needs to be supported by the ignorance being bred there in order to assure its survival. Of course this is predominantly yet another problem caused and perpetuated by liberals, but its pervasiveness keeps it alive as an issue for both sides, and as long as that is the case, it seems to me that there is little motivation to change it.
I went to school so far back that the Federal government was not involved at all and the states were only marginally involved. The states set down guidelines and a few regulations. The local schoolboards ran the schools. Now after over 50 years of Federal intervention can anyone really say that education has improved?
If one takes into account the money spent now versus my time, the students now would never have to go to college. Instead the colleges have to have remedial courses because the students are not prepared. Back then also, if you got out of line you got whacked, that helped a lot in learning.