And “old” is the operative word. Here in sad sack CA the legislature has — in every session for the last 15 years — taken up legislation that would either make Kindergarten mandatory, or extend “public education” the the preschool level. They have been repudiated at every turn by public outcry against both ideas, but persist in resurrecting them again, and again.
I’m intent upon finding the political equivalent of a wooden stake to drive through their black hearts.
It’s the tyranny the Constitution was supposed to protect us from - majoritarianism. We’re not supposed to have this much government at any level. Even the “government schooling”, though traditional, was parent managed and run.