The last stats I recall seeing were that the public school students cost more by about $4000 a head per year to "educate" than private school students. Imagine what that money could be used for if it weren't hemmoraging into the pockets of the fatcats at the top levels of the administration bureaucracy, and financing the creation of the propaganda masquerading as knowledge that is typical fare ("standardized curricula") in public schools today?
Would you at least agree that Federal meddling in public schools should be eliminated? I would find them less objectionable if that were the case; even better if the states butted out as well and let local communities (townships, cities) decide for themselves how to best meet the literacy needs of their citizens.
All this conversation started when I merely mentioned that private education is not affordable for all and that not all public schools are bad many are very good and the best are at least as good as any private school.
I would not be upset to see the Dept. of Education dissolved and more local control. But even this is not a easily solved issue since some localities have to deal with problems created by federal policies i.e. immigration. Why should taxpayers in S. California have to shoulder the entire burden of educating illegal immigrants or legal ones for that matter?