 I mean, sure, our government is an incompetent, inefficient, meandering, morally bankrupt, behemoth monstrosity, and tossing your children into its mouth is a bit like, what was it, Jabba the Hutt feeding prisoners into the Sarlacc, I think it was called. You don't get Star Wars references from me very often, so please appreciate them when they come. But many parents make the mistake of thinking that all of the education system's almost literal pitfalls can be avoided just by avoiding the great chunk of that system, which is run by the state.