The left intentionally has taken over the education system.
You have to understand that if you’re conservative - you’re sending your kids to be raised and indoctrinated in the leftist worldview.
Fortunately, the homeschooling movement is growing. Fast enough? Dunno. But, evangelical, homeschooling families tend to be BIG. 5-10 kids. And those kids get a get a hardcore “armoring up” and understand the attacks of the left. They have an inverse “retention rate” of the conservative kids that are public educated. Instead of losing 90% of them, we “keep” 90% of them.
Paging Sandra Fluke! Paging Sandra Fluke! Sandra,, go tell this station to keep their hands/ears/eyes out of your bedroom! Go Sandra Go!
Or perhaps the abortion biz in Chicago is taking a hit and they need NPRs help to drum up some customers.
We're fighting the good fight. Many people don't realize that homeschooling is one of the most subversive things you can do.
You also have to keep in mind that children, besides attending home schools, are also attending charter, parochial and private ones. From the last I have read the percentage of children who are being home schooled is around four or five percent.
As the government schools continue to slide into the abyss of destruction a greater desire for other choices will increase and be created and utilized.