Compulsory government schooling has always been about replacing parents.
Government schools have been a spectacular success if measured in terms of what they were intended to accomplish.
“The Underground History of American Education” is available on-line for free. It was written by the 1991 NY State Teacher of the Year who spent 10 years doing research for the book.
It’s an eye-opener.
https://archive.org/details/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducation_758
download source in multiple ebook formats.
Mises wrote a book set before World War 1, where the communists take over everything. They take the children into communal centers, where parents can visit, but anything they bring is divided among the children, and the youngest child in the center dies from neglect when sick because there are too many to receive personal care. But because the children are with the most trained nurses and educators, the mother isn’t allowed to take the child and care for her, because the state literally knows best.