No, it’s primary function is to generate salaries, pensions and health bennies for public employees.
Kids are just grist for their mill.
I need to fold that in to my carefully crafted rant. :)
How about this:
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. Their two primary functions today are to supply government jobs and provide free daycare for parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.