Ill assume you just forgot the sarcasm tag. Unless youre so delusional that you believe the government that pays the school produces wealth outside of what they bleed out of their citizens.
As long as their funding comes directly from the government, then the government has the RIGHT to tell them what to do...no different than me paying a contractor to work on my house.
As far as the taxpayers go, that’s transparent to the schools, since taxes are collected at gunpoint, so taxpayers have no choice.