I think local communities should be able to have their own schools if they want it. Likening ALL forms of public schooling to slavery is projection.
Do think people should NOT be allowed to create a local public school system if they want to?
No. . . People should not be allowed to band together to take other peoples money unless the purpose is to protect a natural right.
Do you think all the parents of 5-17 year olds should be able to take other people's so they can throw a Chuck-e-Cheese party every week?
I like to think I have the right to own my own property as well as the fruit of my own labor. . . . but then again I'm a conservative.
Sure! Provided children are not compelled to attend ( by threat of police action) and citizens are not compelled ( by threat of police or court action) to pay taxes toward it.
For example: I think it would be completely acceptable for an HOA ( Homeowners association) to have have its own school(s). Citizens are completely free to buy or not buy a home in a community with an HOA.
Please remember that government schools can not be religiously, politically, or culturally neutral. No school can be. Another is government schools, just like all schools, must strictly control speech, press, assembly, exercise of religion and all indoctrinate the students in a non-neutral religious worldview.
Government should NOT be in the business of compulsory attendance and compulsory funded socialist-based school because to do so trashes the First Amendment Rights and freedom of conscience of its citizens. The most powerful voting mob gets to crush the human rights of the less politically powerful.
Sure, as long as funding is voluntary.
Do I think people should be allowed to make other people pay for their kid's education? Not only no, but...