educational bureaucrats, ideological indoctrinators and other beneficiaries of today’s system. What will happen when the growing number of homeschooling families withdraw their political support for the enormous classicaleducation taxes required to fund today’s $300 billion government system? To combat these threats, defenders of the status quo are fighting back with all the legal, legislative, and economic weapons at their disposal. The most insidious of these tactics is the systematic undermining and co-opting of the homeschooling movement by establishing government homeschooling programs. Government homeschooling programs set seductive lures before families by providing “free” resources, teachers, extracurricular activities, facilities, and even cash reimbursement. When enough families have voluntarily returned to the government system, it classicaleducation will be a relatively straightforward classicaleducation matter to

with a national average of almost $6,000 per student [3]. classicaleducation Homeschooled children represent over seven billion dollars out of reach of local government schools and, at its current growth rate, each year more than another billion dollars slips away. Politically, homeschoolers are a force to be reckoned with when their rights are endangered. The most highly publicized and effective example of their growing political classicaleducation clout occurred in 1994 when the House of Representatives inserted language into an educational appropriations bill that would have required all teachers to be credentialed. Homeschoolers perceived this provision as a threat to their autonomy and overwhelmed phone and fax lines to their representatives until the credentialing classicaleducation language was removed by a 424-1 vote. Homeschooling’s economic and political impact is keenly felt by teacher unions,

recapture the rest by imposing mandatory homeschooling classicaleducation oversight regulations. Will this seduction succeed in eliminating independent homeschoolers and derailing the growing free market in education? Economics and the history of private schools versus government schoolsprovide ample lessons on what to expect. With more students getting even busier these days, the new library system in Bismarck public schools has been a godsend. The new system, which went online this fall, gives students, as well as anyone with an Internet connection, access to the library and all its functions. with kids today, so many work or are involved wit activities, so this will give them access when they get home at night," said Konnie Wightman, the district''s library media coordinator. The school district was using the Central Dakota Library Network and an operating system called Info*Lynx, but the cost to

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