Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey

The school systems in CA had been faltering even before the financial crisis. They were faltering because the operated on the same Rust Belt model as the auto companies and the other big, uncompetitive, obsolete institutions that we now see failing all around us… Homeschoolers have built a new model. The homeschooling model builds social capital in co-ops and other grass-roots organizations. The homeschooling model makes excellent and effective use of technology. The homeschooling model is economically efficient, spending far less per pupil than school systems…If the financial crisis breaks the backs of the interest groups that have exploted school budgets for their own economic advantage, and leads to approaches more like homeschooling, it will prove to be a salutary example of what Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter called “Creative Destruction” and the country will be better for it.

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