[OriginalIntent]

The government has deliberately created a price-fixed cartel system of schools

I could not have said it as well. Excellent.

[wintertime]

Ifa private cartel of CEOs were to try to corner a market by price-fixing they would quickly be in prison!

But...Down on the Animal Farm, government bureaucrats and the toady politicians in the NEA’s pocket live in the farmer's house. Private CEOs doing the same thing get to live in prison.

One thing gives me encouragement. I am seeing more and more in editorials the idea that it is impossible to have a religiously neutral education. Education is either godless or God-centered. Government schools, being utterly godless in their worldview, are establishing a godless worldview in their schools and are NOT, and never have been, religiously neutral.