“School Choice Week” presents an opportunity to discuss the consequences of “school choice” policies, which are popular with most Republican legislators and national “conservative” think tanks.

However, I believe it’s a grave mistake to use government funding to enroll children in private and Christian schools and to support homeschooling. Let me explain why.

On its face, “school choice” appears to be a viable solution for making alternative education affordable for parents who do not want their children indoctrinated through government schools. The problem is, once government money is infused into these alternative modes of education, they too will become controlled by the government and subject to the woke agenda that has ravaged government schools.

In a 1980 court case affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government prevailed over Hillsdale College asserting that when an educational institution accepts students who receive government funds, it’s subject to government regulation.

The safest way to make alternatives to government schools affordable is through tax credits at the state and federal levels. The federal child tax credit should be increased for parents who do not enroll their children in government schools and states with income taxes should follow suit.

An increase in federal child tax credits will allow parents to keep some of their money to pay for education that best suits their child by paying........

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