We homeschool and can attest to that philosophy.
Over in this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716567/posts
... a fellow pointed out that long ago Wilson looked at society in terms of privately held entities competing with government.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3716567/posts?page=30#30
I followed up saying, in part, “The knave refused to acknowledge that governments ARE dangerous combinations of individuals whose power is one of involuntary association and of forced support for whatever the elites capriciously demand government should do at the moment.”
When you START with the idea that government is competent for all purposes and intents, such that you see it improper to compete against government, where else can that eventually go but even to parents are wrongly teaching their kids values contrary to those the government (the elites running it and the favored it cow tows to) deems proper?
If the government, announcing and pronouncing itself to speak for the collective, should have no competitors then there is no end to its claims. There is no freedom, no family, no mine or yours ... only ours, but we mere peons get no real say in its Administration.