i have never let schooling interfere with my education- Samuel Clemens

i think you are correct about education being the parents responsibility. here, here. but then you throw in that zinger about states having good intentions. the public school system is one of the most powerful tools that "the state" possesses. it has been a powerful tool of social control since teachers were whacking child scribes for their mistakes in Sumer. the school system's direction and curricula change according to the will of the current administration of leaders. the current leaders want ccp level surveillance and crypto currency because that is how china's ccp exerts such efficient control over such a large number of chattel cattle serf peasant deplorable citizens. the leaders of this moment think the fascistic surveillance state is the way to go. it's very sexy to them. and apparently, the convenience of cyber everything is so sexy to the harried masses that they think it's sexy, too.