@AAQ
The premise of a government provided basic education is not something in examined that crept into my mind.
In a non-Agrarian, post Industrial Revolution society which has long outlawed child labor a mandatory basic education is necessary to provide functional and employable citizens.
Your premier of controls and testing has been shown to be unworkable by the yeshiva general education scandals in NY during the past decade.
As a taxpayer I oppose my tax dollars being spent in private institutions. Already in CT the municipalities have to pay the cost of the school nurse, special education and provide in town busing (under same mileage requirements) for private schools as public. I was in a commission that investigated and shut down a private school (not religion affiliated) that misclassified 80 students as SPEd over 6 years. All 80 were admitted to top universities upon graduation. No medical diagnoses could be produced for the. SPEd classifications just a school’s social workers notes.
$26 million was stolen from local taxpayers. The school has been put on probation by the accrediting agency and a lien placed. In another 16 months the town will likely foreclose and sell the property to satisfy the debt.
Decades ago I was on the board of a Jewish day school. The students never received a fleishige lunch. This infuriated me because the freezers were loaded with cases of kosher chicken provided by the USDA (along with things like peanut butter, pasta, canned vegetables). I asked the school cook why she never served chicken to the students and was told the menahel sent chicken to his home and that of his assorted relatives teaching in the school each month while the students lived on pasta and fried matzo for lunch .
Unfortunately, life experience has taught me that private institutions cannot be trusted with public money. An administration that mishandles public funds can be voted out of office