Many of your points are valid... but you're still missing something. So-called "public schools" aren't "our schools." They are government schools, run by an alliance of the NEA and educrats. We'll never win the war against such people until we stop fighting it with their language.
They want us to think that the schools are ours so that we'll join them in efforts to protect the schools, however illegimate. But collectively owned schools are, by definition, socialist. They don't belong to individual people. They belong to the state. So we must call them what they are: government schools. When we do so, we become more free in our minds to consider real private alternatives.
Otherwise, all the "reform" in the world will just end up protecting the state-dominated system.
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