[FITZ]

Or get the federal government out of education completely. If communities paid for their own schools with no federal grants or other federal funds or rules, it wouldn't cost $10,000 a year to educate one student.

[WIladyconservative]

If an Ownership Society means anything, it should mean giving parents control over their children's education. When children are assigned by bureaucrats to a government school, as they are today, parents lose that control, and the government in effect robs parents of their rights and authority.

I couldn't agree more. I homeschool and my particular virtual school is under attack by the Wisconsin Teacher's union. They are suing the school saying that since we parents are not certified teachers, we shouldn't be able to educate our own children . . . .

[highflight]

Agree - for every $1 that the Fed. allocates, $.90 is used for the Feds' clerical administration.

Have you seen the daily Federal Register? (www.federalregister.gov) it is absurd the amount of paperwork for controlling paperwork, related to paperwork ad nauseum.

kind thoughts.