Watching the event in TX has had me with mixed emotions lately. Knowing things weren't right, but not able to put my finger on it. Well my good friend Lady Why over at Kudzu Grows is in a good discussion right now about this subject. I agree with her insight. Here is an excerpt over at Kudzu Grows:

David C. Berliner, a regents' professor at the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at Arizona State University whose research interests include school vouchers and classroom teaching, said it's wrong for the state to be hands-off.

''My take on it all is that children are not the personal property of parents,'' Berliner said by e-mail. ''As minors, the state has an abiding interest in checking on their welfare and their education. When the state doesn't do that, it is abandoning its responsibility to take care of those we define as not able to make decisions on their own.

''Walking away from such responsibility is cowardly. Texans should be ashamed of their lack of oversight," he said.