“I wish I had a dime for every “conservative” who decries public education but defends their school because it has a “great reputation.” If you opt out of private education, I don’t believe you can be a conservative.”
Oh really? Do you believe the same for union members?
Yes, unfortunately the laws requiring union membership are stronger than those requiring public education;
A worker is completely free to seek non-unionized work. No one will haul him off to prison if he chooses not to work for a company with a union.
Ah!...But government schools are different. Behind every government principal and teacher in the U.S. stands an armed policeman who is more than willing to force the government's will on the citizen. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!)
The citizen is under armed police threat to support atheistic government schools. These schools can **never** be religiously, culturally, or politically neutral because neutral schools are impossible! It is axiomatic.
For those parents who can not afford to ransom their children by paying extra in private school and homeschool expenses, they are under armed police threat to send their child to the government indoctrination camps! Some people call this “ransom” by the term, “jizya”!
Government schools are an abomination! They crush freedom of conscience and establish the religion of atheism.