Nonsense! This is a NEA “talking point”.
Let's call the extra parents must pay to home or private school what it is: RANSOM! Parents must RANSOM their children from government control! Some call it jizya.
Children whose parents are unable to homeschool ( and there are many) or can not send their children to private school are under police threat to send their children to their government assigned indoctrination center ( misnamed “school”)
And...I see that you conveniently forgot to mention that taxpayers are under armed police threat to pay for this First Amendment violation of freedom of assembly, freedom to freely exercise their religion, freedom of press and speech, and freedom from the government establishment of atheism.
Next....In my county there are **no** private schools in my county or surrounding counties. The government monopoly cartel with its price-fixed tuition of “zero” has created such a hostile business environment that there are **no** private schools. Who can compete against “tuition-free”?
Conclusion: Government socialist K-12 schools are a human rights abomination that crush every First Amendment human Right of the parent, child and taxpayer. Personally, I hold every socialist school teacher who makes these indoctrination centers possible in contempt. I will not have them for a friend.