The government-run public school system qualifies as  a disaster in its own right. While increased government involvement with the "No Child Left Behind" program promised to improve our public schools, it has actually lowered educational standards, making the system worse than it was before!   This is because the government agenda is geared more towards  producing compliant workers than intelligent, free-thinking Americans.  As a result, more and more people are choosing to educate their kids at home to prevent them from falling victim to the deliberate "dumbing down" of America.