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Since you are evidently a spiritual person you must recognize that education is based upon some underlying philosophy. State run education comes with a curriculum which, subtly but sometimes overtly, influences - some might use the word indoctrinates - its students with the "approved" viewpoint. I find it remarkable that the most spiritual people I know have forsaken public schools in favor of church schools and home schooling for exactly these reasons. While it may be within the state's interest that the population be educated and it may be that the state can properly require a degree of education, by what right or authority does it presume to engage in the enterprise of schooling ?

While it may be within the state's interest that the population be educated and it may be that the state can properly require a degree of education, by what right or authority does it presume to engage in the enterprise of schooling ?

Ordinary child abuse law can be logically extended to require parents to educate children.
Standards can be set, and be met/exceeded by individual means such as home schooling - or anything beyond.

And people, - communities have a perfect right to band together to provide public schools. -- But todays totally out of control tax supported bureaucratic nightmare of a 'system' must be corrected.

Some of the worst problems are present in public schooling because of the systematic elimination of religious activities and precepts from the schools.

People seem to believe that since the public schools have turned away from their pasts and embraced leftwing propaganda as one of its major missions that means public schools are incapable of being reformed and returned to the right path. I don't believe that.

Church schools have an even more explicit "viewpoint" but that doesn't make them bad or good. You just happen to agree with that viewpoint. OWK would argue that it is just another form of propaganda. My youngest goes to a Lutheran high school and I don't mind the viewpoint it instills or tries to instill in him.

Since the states certify schools they will have some say over cirriculum, textbooks and standards. Problems arise when this is taken to an extreme.