Interesting. The only thing I'd offer as a counter-argument is that if the public education monopoly were broken then chances are there'd be a lot of different

Interesting. The only thing I'd offer as a counter-argument is that if the public education monopoly were broken then chances are there'd be a lot of different philosophies guiding the emerging schools. Any top-down system suffers the weakness that a choice made from on high might not be the best for everyone, or that competing approaches might never be explored.