I’ve said for about a decade that public schools are a paradigm created in the 19th century that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century thanks to the internet which gives us all sorts of tools needed to effectively teach our own children - and monitor what they are actually learning.
And this last shooting is giving the whole concept a huge boost.
However, the problem is that now that both parents have to work just to make ends meet, the primary function of public schools is day care up to adulthood. People simply can’t afford the money lost if they home school. They are locked in.
And many will not admit that that is the REAL reason they won’t do it.
But, again, this one brought more people into the fold.
Actually, if they legitimately can't afford it, it's the FIRST reason they give.
It's far easier to admit you can't afford to than that you don't care enough about your kids that you don't want to.
Our public schooling model is a copy of the Prussian model, where conformity of thought, not learning, is the primary objective.