Unfortunately, the logic of a government school system leads straight from Miss Wilder to what we have now. It wasn’t obvious with the small, isolated populations of pioneer communities, but control caught up with them, as it had earlier with urban schools.
I could open a Little House on the Prairie school. I’ve got the books and the skills. However, it would take a reorganization of other systems to make it truly competitive for students. For example, music and sports programs are heavily concentrated in government schools. I couldn’t compete with that, and the students couldn’t participate in county school programs. Enrichment activities would have to be organized at the community/city/county level, independent of schools, for a small-school provider to fit in.