That's the Internet for ya. Take a whack at some group, and the next day a member of that group shows up and respectfully disagrees.

Bonnie, I will just point out that Charter schools ARE government schools, with most of the drawbacks common to those indoctrination centers. If you are dubious of government, the very first thing that should be done is pulling your kids out of those schools. Send your kids to private, INDEPENDENT schools, or homeschool them, or resurrect the old notion of dame schools, etc. There is no need to complicate things or "get around to doing the right thing later". It turns out that
homeschooling is easy, so why not just go ahead and do that right now?
And for heaven's sake, don't register with the government. None of their business.
Oh, yeah, and welcome to our forum!