This issue he borrowed from Neal Boortz. Boortz is the only
talk show host I ever heard call public schools government
schools.
Home schoolers have been calling public schools government schools for at least 15 years.
Hannity and Boortz are still friends from Sean's radio days here in Atlanta just before he went to NYC and Fox and hit the big time.
re: the term "Government schools" -- a good friend who has long been active in education issues such as textbook "censorship" (by the left) says that "government schools" is a far more accurate term. Although there is a degree of local involvement (school boards, votes on taxation), all the *real* decisions are made in the headquarters of the state departments of education, with the local schools left to figure out how to implement the policy directives.