Homeschool!
As I caught a whiff of exhaust from a passing school bus today, I thought of another way to sell homeschooling! Do it for the environment’s sake! Think of it… if one parent from every two parent household stayed home every day, rather than commuting to work – think of all of the gas not burned and the exhaust not exhausted from school buses and commuter cars! Think of the styrofoam takeout boxes, the preprepared/prepackaged food wrappers and containers not bought, used, and tossed! The schools not heated by expensive gas and electricity! It’s an environmentalist’s utopia!
Sorry.. I live in Oregon, that’s my only excuse. And I don’t have a problem with the concept of schools, just government schools, and when I smelled that exhaust today as I took a walk in the rare sunshine with my kids… well… I just couldn’t resist. 
I think it is interesting how being economical is fashionable as long as it's 'green'.