Bypassing the System

The do-it-yourself movement is successfully expanding to untraditional areas, and that has bureaucrats in the education and media worlds taking pot shots at their new competitors in the marketplace, wrote Paul Chesser in the Washington Examiner this week. In his piece, Chesser explained how homeschoolers and bloggers have developed into credible, successful providers of services, to the chagrin of the supporters of the status quo such as the National Education Association, which denigrates homeschooling, and network media executives who do the same to bloggers. Once again, he concluded, market forces are at work. “Homeschoolers and bloggers have shown that through innovation and determination even monoliths dominated by government (and union) control can be broken because consumers gravitate to success – even if it means doing it themselves,” Chesser wrote.