OLATHE, KS — In yet another story that was sure to serve as ammunition for advocates for the benefits of public schooling over other educational options, reports surfaced this week that a local 3-year-old homeschooler hasn't even read War and Peace yet.

When Donald Trump recently promised that, if elected, he would abolish the Department of Education, Democrats pounced on the statement, foretelling an apocalyptic hellscape of the uneducated should the federal government no longer oversee education in the United States.