[Roscoe]

Public schools have existed since the dawn of our Republic, Libertarian ignorance of the matter notwithstanding.

[Buckeroo]

I agree about local schools in in America; yes, American education has always been taught at the local level allowing Americans direct influence about subject matter as well as metods of approch to the delivery of information.

But you don't agree. You think that some magic f***ing science by government may promote more BS. Don't worry, you pay for your BS with taxes.

[OWK]

Public schools have existed since the dawn of our Republic

So did human servitude, and other violations of human rights.

That didn't make them morally justifiable then, and it doesn't now.

[Jolly Rodgers]

Public schools have existed since the dawn of our Republic, Libertarian ignorance of the matter notwithstanding.

Mandatory government funded and operated education may have existed in isolated cases in the early US, but it certainly was not the monopoly that it is today. Even if it were, it would not change the fact that it is a blatant failure and a gross violation of individual rights.