Parents are fed up – schools aren't educating children. We have a system of education, implemented in the mid-1800's, that is publicly funded through taxpayer dollars. Parents argue that schools should reflect what parents want in the education of their children, and the educational establishment argues that they know what is best for children. Accountability to parents for what happens inside the schoolhouse doors has long since been removed, and more especially since the advent of education reform – parents being considered a mere extension of the school family. And while parents have little to no say in their child's education, they are expected to fund government education through their taxes along with all the rest of the taxpayers.

But is the debate over government schools focused where it should be? Many are beginning to examine the whole of education, from the intent of our Founding Fathers when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights, down through state enabling acts and state constitutions. The question is becoming more and more, not what role the government should have in the education of our children, but whether the government, in accordance with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, should have a role at all.

Let the debate begin!

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