[1Old Pro]

The GOP needs to help keep this grassroots anti-public school movement going.

[ConservativeInPA]

Step one is taking over the establishment GOP. That’s the astroturfing required. We can take over Precinct Committeemen positions, school boards, township and county commissioners positions. The rest will follow. I wouldn’t count on the GOP to do anything tangible nationally until that happens.

However, there are pockets of hope. Arizona has enacted a law where education dollars can go directly to parents. Those dollars can be used on homeschooling, private schools, parochial schools and other education options. When this type of law spreads to a majority of states, then government indoctrination centers will be forced into competition to survive. It’s the GOP that stands in the way.

[Gaffer]

I think the major problem is government influence (i.e., MONEY) in our school systems. They (the Fed) will throw money hand-over-fist at schools for all manner of things: extra guidance counsellors, various management functions, school lunches and other ‘needy’ assistance programs administered by schools, and a lot of other means (e.g., any child whose parents had a federal job or federally connected job and were identified by the school qualifies that school system to get government funds for Fed-caused additional costs in education.)

The problem with all (the carrots) this comes the “stick.” DO THIS OR ELSE WE PULL FUNDING.

And the school boards, school administrators all-of-a-sudden start thinking about what they’d have to do without the money. They’d lose all their perks.