They were wrong. Public education, like all public services, becomes a tool of tyranny as the rich and organized realize they can bend it towards their own goals. All they need is money and influence to capture it.

The reality is that only a moral people can safeguard against tyranny. The only things they need for this is the ability to read and a sound moral code as the basis of their actions and interactions.

It doesn't require an elaborate public school system to ensure this happens, which is why Jefferson proposed a very limited public school experience focused on grammar.

America has been brought to the brink of ruin by its materialist public school system that has been funded by theft and led by awful people.

Families would be better off keeping their kids home and teaching them what it means to be a human being. There are all kinds of great models where this is getting done right now across the US from homeschool co-ops to online microschools.

We don't need govt schools to educate our children.