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People who can’t afford $5K private school tuition on top of $7K public school tax annually. For many people to do that (especially here in NJ), parents would have to work so much they’d never see their children. Homeschooling is an option easily discussed for younger children, but as they grow older this becomes more impractical (unless both parents are PhDs).

The solution is a tax writeoff for parents who use private schools. Unions will hate it, but it will help immensely.

Homeschooling is an option easily discussed for younger children, but as they grow older this becomes more impractical (unless both parents are PhDs).

Where is the evidence that children learn anything inside an institutional school? Really? I mean this question seriously? I have asked so-called "educators" for the links to the scientific research papers that sort out **exactly** WHERE children are acquiring their knowledge. Is it at home or is it in the classroom?

This is a simple but important question and **every** educator should be able to give me the definitive answer but can't. Why? I suppose that if serious researchers were to examine the question they would find the following:

1) The only thing an institutional school does is send home a curriculum for the child and parent to follow in the **HOME**!!!

2)It is the parents and the child, himself, that are doing 99.99% of the brute work of learning in the **HOME**!

3) There is little difference between the home habits and home study efforts of academically successful homeschoolers and academically successful institutionalized children. Both are doing the same amount of work, in the same manner, in the **HOME**!

4) The only thing institutional schools do is administer tests and grade assignments. While an institutional school may have some lab facilities and offer a few whiz bang lab projects, these few worthwhile experiences are easily available to students at the local community college.

5) If where and how children acquire knowledge were seriously studied it may be found that institutional schools in reality artificially ** RETARD** the social and academic development of children.

As for my own homeschooled children, they entered community college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. Two finished B.S. degrees in mathematics by the age of 18. One had a masters in math by the age of 20. The oldest, took a different path but has been equally socially and academically successful. It does **NOT NOT NOT NOT** take parents with Ph.D. to accomplish this. Homeschoolers are doing it all over the country. What ever my husband and I lacked as parents was found in pre-college level courses at the community college.

A tax deduction will not address the problem; it wouldn’t scratch the surface. To exempt $5K of my income from taxation, while I still pay $7K for my public schools AND $5K for the private one, is completely inadequate. Vouchers are the ony solution, but everyone knows public schools would be closed within one year of their use; ALL of them.