My dear - please tell me what is compulsory? I do not have to send my daughter to public school, it was a choice I made. The fact I have a choice belies the claim of compulsory.
Again it is compulsory because you MUST put her in school and it MUST be for a certain amount of time (5-17 or whatever your compulsory ages are). If you do not do this, you will be FORCED to by the truancy officers. Now you could face jail for it.
You do not have a choice in this.
Since you are taking the liberty of calling me your “dear”, may I call you “Honey bun”?
Regarding compulsory:
Please read the title of the thread. Parents are being threatened with police, court, and prison. If the parents were sufficiently resistant the police would kill them. That is the very definition of government “compulsion”.
Next,...Because the government is running a price-fixed monopoly cartel and has set their tuition at the under-market price of “tuition-free”, they have created a very hostile business climate for the creation of private alternatives. In my county, the price-fixing practices of compulsory government schooling have driven all private institutional alternatives out of business.
If the above, to you, is “choice”, then what would be your definition of compulsory? Does it come in a bottle labeled, “Drink me”?
Well....I suppose it is some form of “choice”. There is the choice of being under police threat to use the government schools, or being under police threat to ransom a child by paying jizya in the form of private tuition or homeschool expenses. Some “choice”!
But...As I pointed out private institutional schooling ( even if one is willing to pay the jizya or ransom) does not exist. The price-fixing practices of the the compulsory government education cartel has driven them out of business.