> public school gets in the way of their indoctrination Public schools themselves indoctrinate children--just with a different set of values than many parents

> public school gets in the way of their indoctrination Public schools themselves indoctrinate children--just with a different set of values than many parents have. The people who built the US system of widespread compulsory public schooling in the US were quite explicit about that being one of the primary purposes of the system. (So were the people who built the Prussian system that was referenced elsewhere in the thread.)