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How does public schooling work? It is run by a political commission, either at the local, state, or national level, by which politicians and bureaucrats plan the educational decisions of thousands, sometimes millions, of children. How is it funded? The state uses its coercive power of taxation to take money from some, even those who do not have children, to fund the schooling of others … . What do the students learn? They learn official, approved doctrine from government-approved schoolteachers who use government-approved textbooks. How do public schools get their customers? Through compulsory attendance laws by which adults are commanded to deliver their children at the age of six to these government-approved institutions.
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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