Therefore......That is why our Founding Fathers wanted government to be as minimal as possible and as locally controlled as possible. Anything that the government does can not be religiously, politically, or culturally neutral in content or consequences.
Government schooling is a MAJOR abomination when it comes to the First Amendment and freedom of conscience. When there **are** alternatives to government run and owned schooling that have been proven to be superior, there can be no valid argument for allowing them to continue.
By the way....I have noticed that there is a strong similarity between the arguments used to defend government schooling and those used to defend slavery in the 19th century.
Do an experiment.
Each time the word “public school” is used in a defense of government schooling, substitute the word, “slavery” or “slave”. It is AMAZING how suddenly they become the same debating points used by supporters of slavery before the Civil War.
Parents are responsible for the education of their children. The government should STAY OUT of what is entirely a family matter. The type and amount of education children need should be determined entirely by the head of the household. Period.
In the absence of SOCIALIST schools parents would, in most cases, band together (probably with the help of churches) to facilitate the education of their kids. But whether or not they do that - and the extent to which it is done or not done - is, again, entirely up to each family.