http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger93.html
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Consider another example of conservatives’ intentional violation of the principles they expound: public schooling. It would be difficult to find a better example of socialistic central planning – that is, anti-free-market activity – than public schooling. After all, when we use that term – “public” – we’re referring not to the “general public” but instead to the government. Public schooling is a government operation. Even worse, it’s a quasi-monopoly, a type of institution that economists have long recognized is anti-free enterprise.
Under public schooling, the government, either at the national, state, or local level, plans in a top-down, command-and-control manner, the educational decisions of multitudes of students. Attendance is mandatory, with criminal contempt charges hanging over the heads of recalcitrant parents. Students are taught government-approved doctrines by government-approved schoolteachers using government-approved textbooks following a government-approved curriculum.
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Why do we pay for gubamint skoolz, with all the attendant problems, when we don’t pay for kid’s sneakers, fod, medical care, etc. etc.
The State “delegates” to the parents all the mundane stuff and then brainwashes them into the State Religion (i.e., the government is “god”. Only the State can save you!)?
Reinke Faces Life 