But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations when we replace home education by social.
And your education! Is not that also social and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.
Fast forward to this article. Marx would be happy. Public school is serving a troika of societal needs such as training, day care, and indoctrination.
Within public education, the state stands in loco parentis during school hours. That means there is an implicit - if not fully-understood - sanctioning of government pouring into kids' heads whatever they wanted and in some cases strike their kids. Some parents are OK with this because, well, that worked for their parents and prior generations.
But that's a trap. The issue isn't that we have the wrong types of people teaching or the schools lack discipline or we need more money in schools.
THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM is that parents have surrendered their rights.
By extension, you have equally OK'd your child being forced to watch anti-gun films, receive Sex Ed at 6 years old, and attend environmentalist-driven field trips.
Oh sure, there is the School Board, PTA and other flaccid pseudo-levers of power handed to the parent. And maybe after months of fighting and blood, sweat and tears, Johnny doesn't have to go on the field trip.
In the end you cannot ignore the truth: you've surrendered your child to the state.
The root of the problem is that the parents have shirked their responsibilities.