As I said in 62, in an ideal world, we wouldn't have public education. But we don't live in an ideal world, we live in this one. Sometimes you don't get to pick the hill you fight on.
I did. I homeschooled my children. The government reports that now 4% of school-age children are homeschooled. The real number is likely twice that. Vouchers, charters, tax credits, and Internet schooling expand year by year and state by state.
Ideas are the most powerful thing in the universe. Remember, please, that we exist at all began as an idea in the mind of God. That government schooling is a illegitimate First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination is a **powerful** idea and it is taking strong root in the hearts and minds of the citizens of this nation.
Powerful and intractable institutions can lose their legitimacy seemingly overnight. There are many examples. Our American Revolution is one. Government K-12 schooling is not immune.