Excellent post. I am a big fan of homeschooling. I agree with you that the schools care more about the headcount for the purposes of funding than making sure students get a quality education. In fact, I would argue that most public schools have become little more than communist indoctrination centers that continue to push the liberal/progressive/communist agenda. So have many colleges. Free thought and free speech is discouraged and in its place political correctness and memorization of of liberal talking points of fake science like "Global warming" - oh wait, forgot they had to change the term to "Climate change" so they can flip flop more easily when reality doesn't match their erroneous predictions. Some day the world will end, but its more like to a nuclear war, the sun burning out, or the earth being hit by an asteroid or other space debris than grandpa heating his home with wood or coal.