“Education is a shared responsibility, where we should expect to pick up the slack and correct errors in government schools, while the government picks up the slack and fills in gaps in what we do with our children.”
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I couldn’t disagree more with your statement. Educating and training a child is the parent’s responsibility. The Prussian model of education was not the original method of education used in the United States, you would be well served to investigate the history of public education in the US. If parents have to “pick up the slack” and correct errors from a government education then what is the point of sending them there?
If we concede that the education of one’s own children is something that an “individual can’t do, or can’t do well” then all individuals will lose the right to choose a better way to educate their children by homeschooling.
How many parents can effectively teach calculus, statistics, Spanish, French, or German at the AP level? A whole lot of kids get a better education on the technical side because of good public schools.
When it comes to political bias, many teachers are terrible, and it’s the parent’s job to fix that if school teachers cross that line. But the good teachers (and there are many of them) do a better job that I could do in several areas - even parts of history, and I love history.