The problem IS bigger than the state school system. It is also a VERY BIG problem in many of the private schools.
My bone with the homeschoolers and private schoolers is that once they feel they have insolated THEIR kids from the government indoctrination machine, their concerns with the rot within the government system ends.
I would remind them that those government schooled kids greatly outnumber their kids by orders of magnitude. Those kids will outnumber THEIR kids at the polls every time, resulting in clones — or worse — of skilled liars and products of private schools like Obama. And their contact with those grown government kids will be when an armed squad of those government kids come to visit with orders to take them and their families on a one-way ride to a remote reeducation camp because (as a Nebraska government school official admitted in public years ago) “They don’t fit in.”
I repeat: “We’d better solve this problem or we’re just tinkering around the edges.”
They still have only the one vote per parent, and are often still looked at like space aliens by family and neighbors, much less trying to convince people to either vote at all, or to vote for conservatives.
I’m an educated, involved mom, the sort who could be on PTAs, volunteer in classrooms, make sure homework gets done. Only thing is I’ll wrestle alligators naked before I let my kid near a government school. We’re going to homeschool, which as you point out means my energies won’t be going to fix the system. I don’t feel bad about that. My clear moral duty is to my own child’s welfare first.
The problem isn’t parents like me who are devoted to our own kids. The problem is parents who couldn’t care less, who ship their kids off and trust the goverment to do the raising. The sooner that system collapses in on itself, the better for all involved.