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Ummm.. educating my children is my job. I spend way more than $250 to do that, and I get no tax money. So Why should teachers be a privledged class of people? Some states would like to do away with income taxes at all for teachers.

Are you claiming to be a conservative? I am sorry for the loss of your wife, however I think you are way off base on this one. How about people pay for the schooling of their own kids. and in return we pay little taxes for public education. For the few kids who have no parents ,we can have some public education funds put aside. Even I will pay for that.

I claim nothing. Label me if it helps you but one group calls me a statist another a libertarian others liberal other commie. I call myself a thinker without an ideology that covers all I conclude. And I do not believe all conservatives must think exactly alike on all matters.

Jobs are defined by being in a job market. People who teach their own children do not work "jobs" in the normal usage of that term. Just like the fact I do housework does not make me a professional cleaner of houses.

Not only do you spend way more, you, by forgoing income from an outside job, cost yourself a five figure salary which makes the per student cost for homeschooling astronomical. If you quit a 50,000G job to homeschool 2 children that is the equivalent of 25Gs per child. Most colleges are not that expensive. This is one reason h.sing can never be anything other than a small % of the population.

Teachers are not a "priviledged class" by any means nor are they overpaid, rather in many cases underpaid. Entry salaries are not that high and only after Masters + decades do salaries reach the level that provoke squawks.

Modern states have decided that education is not something to be limited to the rich which would be the result of your proposal. Even the kids with no dad need an education. That is where most of the problems in public education come from, quasi-families.

America is the greatest nation in the world and one of the reasons is because it developed an excellent public education system. Ninety-five percent (or greater) of the soldiers who just liberated Iraq are graduates of the public schools. Their failures are not adequately understood around here. Nor are their successes. That is because ideology gets in the way of insight.

educating my children is my job

If you cannot distinguish between someone educating people's children and providing a service to the community and you choosing to educate your own children, I'm not sure there's a whole lot of hope for dialogue. There is a fundamental difference in buying a van for your job and a van to haul your kids in, whether you claim "hauling your kids around" as part of your job or not. Perhaps you should petition the state for the salary of a school bus driver to haul your kids and the salary of a school janitor to clean the house.