The tuition at government schools is ZERO! Do you understand that this is price-fixing? If a private company tried this the CEOs would be in prison! Is it any wonder then that in my county there are **no** private schools? If government owned government grocery stores, and gave food away for free, how many private grocery stores do you think we would see?
Ok....So?...Government creates and extremely hostile economic environment for the creation of private schools. When private schools don't exist, the government forces children ( under threat of armed police action) into religiously non-neutral “schools”. They are **compelled** by threat of police action to attend a **GOVERNMENT** religiously non-neutral school!
Then **if** a parent is lucky enough to have a private schools in the area, to escape the government soul killing death grip the parent must pay twice. The parent must pay the government school tax and then extra in the form of private school tuition. I surely would **not** call that religiously neutral. I call it a “Freedom of Conscience” tax!
And....No citizen can escape paying taxes for the government religiously non-neutral schools ( misnamed “public” schools).
Sounds like **lots** of police force to me backing up those religiously non-neutral government schools.
If people didn't like the food at the free grocery stores, we'd see lots of private ones. The fact that your county has no public schools tells me that either your neighbors are satisfied with the product they're getting for free or they can't afford to pay for private schools--in which case the existence of such schools isn't going to help them very much.
Everybody pays taxes for something they don't like. People who don't read pay for libraries. People who don't drive pay for roads. Liberals pay for the war. Conservatives pay for food stamps. If you want to make an argument against public schools or against compulsory education, go ahead, but the fact that religious people have to pay for them doesn't carry much weight.