Absolutely. But the free babysitting that public schools provide has allowed women to work which has allowed the govt to increase taxes everywhere.
It won't be easy to break the cycle. Every community I've lived in continues to raise their school levy.
One of these days we'll recognize that children really do need to be raised by adults who care about them, not teachers, and that capitalism will fail without human capital.
You know, everything you just said, I learned in church. Does anybody remember church anymore? Remember, when you were a kid, that place your folks took you on Sundays?
We need to get back to 1955, without the racism, and sexism, and just try and be good people.