Also, there are tons of online schools. The internet is making brick-and-mortar colleges obsolete.
Yes, that is the answer to the problem, and
the problem is sending your children away to a school in another town where they will be living by themselves, even if it is sending them away to elementary or high school to St. Mary's Kansas.
There are many fields that require higher learning to get a license, like medicine, science, engineering, architecture, school teacher...…., and one can today go to practically any university online. But, if your children have to go to a brick and mortar school because they need a degree in these fields, they can go to a local state university
and live at home.