[snarks_when_bored]

Public education is not a new idea (it's older than the Greeks of Plato's time). And I don't equate public education with indoctrination (believe me, I know the difference between the elementary school classes that I attended during the school day and the catechism classes that I attended in the evenings).

[Durus]

There is a difference between a public school and a government school. Government schools could in theory not be indoctrination camps...but why risk it? More importantly, speaking of conservative principles, the govt. does not have the constitutionally mandated power to run schools.