Utterly Meaningless

The biggest problem with Kling’s trade offer is that we can’t trust politicians of any stripe to follow through on a promise. So what if the democratic party did promise to support a 5 state rollout of real school choice. What are the odds of them actually following through without watering it down so much as to be unrecognizable as the libertarian idea of choice?

I put those odds at less than 1%.

I fail to see how committed homeschoolers can look to the Dems for (freely given) political support. Most Democrats where I live (in the People’s Republic of Maryland) are openly hostile to home-schoolers, and tend to make excuses for corrupt, incompetent school administrations while demanding more tax dollars to fix the problems that those administrations have created and / or allowed to fester. Are Democrats any different in NC? Or anywhere else, for that matter?

The Dems in NJ — as a group — don’t care on way or the other about homeschoolers. As individuals, some are OK, some are against, one is notoriously anti (but she’s anti for personal reasons having nothing really to do with home ed; she’s against the Rigious Right and thinks we’re all it’s minions).

But we seem to have more private and parochial schools per capita than other states, and I think that does make a difference. You can’t be “anti-every-educational-alternative” like the NEA is here, or you alienate too many people.