Actually, rooksers had an argument that a lot of home schoolers have - they want to opt out of paying school taxes (which is usually a %age of property tax).
If you study history, one of the main motivations for enacting schools wasn't a benign sense to educate our youth. . .it was to keep the "urchins" off the street. So. . .it was a social measure aimed at preventing crimes like loitering, begging, petty theft and vandalism.
The teacher was little more than a truant officer and baby sitter.
It was only til later that yeah. . .we actually expect them to learn something, not just be better citizens.
So. . .point is. . .even if you homeschool, you benefit from public schools by keeping the urchins off the street.
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