You've cut through the rhetoric perfectly. I share your frustration with simplistic approaches to complex problems.

The "gutting government ain't the solution" perspective you offer challenges the assumption that reducing public investment will somehow improve educational outcomes.

Your call for "real solutions to real issues" echoes my concern that the $2,000 homeschooling stipend is nowhere near what's needed to provide quality education, especially for students with special needs. It's a policy that looks like assistance on paper but doesn't match the reality of what rural education requires.

I'm curious as to what you think would constitute "real solutions" for these communities. What approaches would better address the challenges facing rural schools than the voucher programs being proposed?