Debate me about anything you disagree with Ron Paul on: foreign policy, economy, Iraq/Iran, etc

Round 2 education I first want to go over the arguments my opponent dropped. "Home schooling is a good thing, if they are held accountable to their childs learning and Ron Paul sadly does not do that." "he will give money to parents for homeschooling, but not hold them accountable" I will later go into the significance of these arguments, besides being practically all of my arguments in the first round. But as you know, in debate silence is consent, he didn't refute them, that must mean he agrees. Although he did fall short on refutation he did bring up some good points. But some seemed to be irrelevant due to myself conceding the argument that in some cases homeschooling is good but in others it is not. My opponent says "I have known people that homeschooling didn't work well at all for...So did the kid whose parents chose not to socialize him, which ultimately led to his death." Link that to my argument about my skater friend, although it did not lead to his death, it lead him to a world of alcohol, drugs, crime, and who knows what else. So that seems like something we agree on, not disagree. It does not work for everyone, but these students are not placed back into the public school. But link that to my argument "I also don't like the fact that he will give money to parents for homeschooling, but not hold them accountable" I will use my friend as the example, for i don't know enough about my opponents friends story. But my friend is not learning anything. His days are filled with skating at the local state parks walking around town, malls ect. But with Ron Pauls plan his mom will still be recieving money for no effort on her end, no learning is taking place for the child, just another waste of government money. I do believe that they should be held accountable, there is a multitude of ways in going about this, but i will highlight one. 1. Home schooled children will take the same standardized as the rest of the kids in public schools. If they do not pass with basic or above and at least %50 percent of the public school kids score basic or above, the child will be immediatly returned to the public school system. But if they score better than %70 of public school students the family will recieve the tax credits. The percents and whatnot are not set in stone but i think that he should enforce something like that. If Ron Paul does get to pass his plan we will see a huge percent of public school students who do not want to be there drop out into homeschool. The budget will heavily lean toward these tax credits and even less money will be spent on the public school system. "The Dept of Edu is a giant bureaucracy that just wastes a lot of tax dollars." Can you explain in what ways the Dept. of Edu. is wasting tax dollars? And how they are wasting more tax dollars than Ron Pauls plan will? He want's the give money to the parents of homeschooled students without making sure they are learning anything. Students that don't want to be in public schools will go to homeschool, waste their days away in front of the computer, video games, skateboards, not learn anything. And just reep the benefits of being homeschooled. For no work or learning the parents will recieve extra money on top of regular pay. If you want to talk about wasted money, you should see what the plan you are promoting does first. We must make sure they learn if they are getting paid for it. You claim the education system is bad now, but you advocate this plan? This is in no way going to fix it. "By standardizing tests, the government forces the quality of our education down further. When students are held to a certain standard while the quality of our education is slipping, overall test scores begin to decline, and the standard has to be dropped." Standardized tests are good for one thing in particular, holding teachers accountable. I do agree that there is a lot of controversy surrounding standardized tests, but in this case it at leasts hold the parents accountable for learning, and not just letting them chill around town. Ron Paul is a great candidate in many, many aspects. But in this case he is not. He wants to give money to parents that homeschool their child and will stop testing. But the dangers behind that are obvious. Kids wont learn, they don't want to learn, they never have, and we do see the school systems quality, but the plan buts the responsibility on parents. According to adoption.com there has been more child abuse and neglect cases than ever before. You are taking the responsibility out of trained, professional teachers, and into the hands of parents, that will not get the job done right, and end up making the school system worse than it already is. We must take a logical, insightful way to fix the school system, not waste more tax dollars on ridiculous programs. Thank you, and I look forward to hearing your response.