When the president first announced he was appointing Linda McMahon to head up the Department of Education—with the explicit goal of shutting it down—I’ll admit, I was pretty stoked.
I mean, I thought it was kinda weird that the WWE guy’s wife was in charge of a federal agency, but whatever. I was in.
When months went by and there wasn’t much movement, I figured it was another one of those Washington promises that fades away once the cameras stop rolling and the election is won.
Then the government shut down, and the Department of Education went dark.
Want to guess what happened?
Yep. Nothing.
Schools stayed open. Teachers got paid. Kids still sat in classrooms. The world kept turning.
It was the perfect experiment, and it proved what a lot of us suspected: the federal education bureaucracy doesn’t actually do any educating. It mostly moves money around and tells states what they can and can’t do with their own schools.
That’s what I call a successful trial run. Now let’s make it permanent.
If we can survive six weeks without the DOE, I’m willing to bet we can survive forever without it.
Actually, families all over the country are already proving it.
Homeschooling has exploded in the last few years. The Census Bureau found that the share of homeschooled kids has more than doubled since before the pandemic, with more than 3.7 million students learning outside traditional classrooms in 2024.
Contrary to what the critics say, this isn’t a rejection of learning; it’s a return to it.
We actually wrote a book about a family navigating the decision to leave public school for true education freedom. Spurred by a teacher who cared, and inspired by the great John Taylor Gatto, the Tuttle Family makes the tough choice to change the way they learn.
The Tuttle Twins and the Education Vacation is a great resource for families who already homeschool, and for those where kids are still a little unsure about leaving the classroom behind.
When education isn’t micromanaged from D.C., it gets better everywhere. Families who homeschool are tailoring lessons to their kids’ pace and passions, Charter schools are experimenting with exciting new ideas, heck even public schools are being nudged to innovate because they finally have some competition!
That’s what freedom does. It improves everything it touches.
Imagine a country where the majority of students are educated through family-driven models—public, private, homeschool, charter, co-op—and the bureaucrats are the ones out of jobs instead of good teachers.
That day isn’t as far off as it used to be.
A lot of us have been in the trenches for years, fighting for education free from the leviathan of federal overreach, and our wins are getting harder and harder to ignore.
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When education returns to the people who love kids the most, the whole country wins. Let’s keep building that future: one family, one conversation, and one great book at a time.
— Connor
