As an attorney, I believe that government schools should be unconstitutional under the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law.....abridging the freedom of speech.”  Government schools are abridging (and are incompatible with) freedom of speech.
    During my legal career, parents have asked me if it is wise (or constitutional) for government to control everyone’s education.  Government schools have been sued often for violations of free speech rights.  But the bigger problem is that government schools teach people what to think and speak in ways that never result in lawsuits.  
    Government schools create milquetoasts in the same way that Cuban schools create socialists.  Government schools in the U.S. are different only in degree from schools in the former U.S.S.R.   
    The U.S. did not have government schools when the First Amendment was written.  If the authors of the Constitution had foreseen the government’s education monstrosity then the First Amendment would have banned Congress from the establishment of religion and education.   
    The Constitution should be amended to include “education” next to “religion.”   The separation of school and state is as important as the separation of church and state.  And for the same ideological reasons.   The proposed constitutional amendment is discussed in detail at http://rexcurry.net .
    Even if an excuse could be made for the initial creation of some government schools, their ongoing existence is proof of their ongoing failure to educate people to handle their own (or their childrens’) educations without government schools.