Re: that's NOT totalitarianism

But you're fooling yourself if you think children wouldn't be (and aren't) "indoctrinated" by other means if not for public schooling.

Does anyone think that?

Some actual differences are that public schooling relies upon monopoly power and is funded through extortion on a grand scale.

I don't support public money for overtly religious or ethnocentric education either. Unfortunately the most powerful States disagree considering their massive aid in extorted monies to 'sacred' shitholes like Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Am I expected to believe that a private education system would succeed in educating the poor in this country, when our private health insurance system can't even guarantee the poor health care without threat of bankruptcy?

Health care is so expensive thanks to the red tape of regulatory cartelization and other anti-competitive impositions by government.