The Most Depressing Photograph in the World  …, or at least in
the April 2005 issue of Reason. This is from the leading page of
Homeschooling Alone by Greg Beato. Here we have three young
children under Mother’s watchful eyes in Tempe, Arizona:  Photo:
three home-schooled children and their mother hold their hands
over their hearts and hold up a United States flag in their
living room  This is a family of home-schoolers starting their
day—by uttering the Pledge of Allegiance. When they don’t even
have to.  You want an argument for thick libertarianism over
thin libertarianism? There it is.  N.B.: this is not a diatribe
against home-schooling, or even against the article. The article
is mostly intended as an article about why private foundations
and corporate donors seem resolutely determined to keep throwing
their education reform money down the hole of proven
failures—like mostly-useless charter schools and technology-in-
schools fads—rather than, say, offering scholarship funds to
homeschooling families or c