Well, yes, but where that is a present difficulty, then be prepared to teach them how to survive the system - how to dissemble, how to be discrete, how to never trust the 'occupying power'.
Of course, one could always choose to teach them how to work the system, and milk the taxpayers - I know that many parents do.
I believe that to be a short-sighted policy.
I fully agree - but you have to be practical, too. And part of that is being prepared to simply pull them out of the system.
And you have to teach that to them at an early age. Those kinds of skills are not something you'd like to introduce to your middle-school child, but you almost have to "corrupt" them in that way for their own good. And it is complicated to teach them things like that without teaching them to be the dissemblig, sneaky type.
Free, but not compulsory. I don't like these mandatory institutions. Someplace your kids(or you) have to be 6-8 hours a day, five days a week or the police will come get you and lock you up. Bad, bad, bad. Slave state.