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For years I’ve been suggesting to anyone who will listen that the American education system should be privatized, so that parents can take advantage of the free market to choose what and how their children learn, instead of having it decided by bureaucrats and interest groups through political pressure. For this view I have been called an extremist.

Perhaps now that Kansas has opened the door to religious dogma being taught as science, the idea won’t seem quite so extreme the next time we hear of it–so thanks, Kansas, for providing an excellent example of why government should not be allowed to hold a functional monopoly on education.