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educational grammer 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 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 schools before families by providing “free” resources, teachers, extracurricular activities, grammer facilities, and even cash reimbursement. When enough families have voluntarily returned to the government system, it will be schools a relatively straightforward matter to recapture grammer the rest by imposing mandatory homeschooling 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 schools ample lessons on what to expect. With more grammer students getting even busier these days, the new library system in Bismarck public schools has been a godsend. The new system, which went online schools this fall, gives students, grammer 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 schools 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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