Letters to the Editor
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Some limitations on all that "local is better government" stuff
Please don't expect to send your hypothetically Kansas-creationist-educated "science" students to any other state for work or advanced degrees then.
See, when you turn it all into 50 individual fiefdoms, it sets practical limits on the mobility you assume will "free-market" solve the problem of being born in a state that doesn't offer the type of government that fits you. Right now, if I grow up in Ohio but think I'd rather go to graduate school in California and work in New York, my Ohio education has met some agreed upon minimum standards and my high school diploma from there is guaranteed to be valid whether I want to go to college in Alabama or Wyoming or even to Hahvahd. When West Virginia dictates education can stop after the 2nd grade so we can all get to work in the coal mines under this new feudal... er... federalist system, I think I'd be kinda screwed on that score.