Another reason:
Government schools destroy the environment! Really they do. Think about it.
If there was complete separation of school and state, families would not need to leave the cities to seek better schools for their children. Private schools would be freely available. People choosing to live in the environmentally fragile hinterlands would have to **pay** for the privilege of sending their child to a Prussian-model school!
As the government schooling deteriorates in the inner cities and surrounding suburbs, families ( rationally) move further outward seeking a better school setting for their children. They ( rationally) do not want their children **forced by threat of police and court action** into dangerous schools.
No matter where parents choose to live government schools are quickly built to accommodate their wishes. Country towns with one or two traffic lights grow into busy suburbs. Two lane highways become 6 lanes. Strip malls spring up. Farmland is chewed up. And...The big yellow school buses chug along with their cargo.
My husband and I like to ski in the West ( specifically Colorado and Utah). Inevitably, there is the big yellow school buses huffing and puffing up to the highest peaks to fetch children living in homes that sit on land that was once fragile and delicate alpine tundra.
Heh heh! I saw what you did there! I would just love to see a bunch of conservatives disguised as eviro weenies protest at a school board using that logic as a theme of protest.
(images of sputtering school board officials...”but but we love and teach environmentalism in our schools”)