Government education, even if things like bullying and ignorance in the teaching staff are cured, serves one basic purpose - to indoctrinate the children and prepare them to be good citizens of the state. GE gives the children what they "need" to know to get by in life - or so they claim. The life they want our children living is one where they are loyal to the state, and its economic and political goals.

Children who are home educated are, or at least should be, taught to think critically. It is unfortunate that most fundamentalist home educators don't really do this; unless they are using The Sonlight Curriculum, or The Robinson Curriculum. Both of these curriculum choices encourage the child to read, and to make those reading choices based not on one's already accepted philosophy, but upon critically examining philosophical schools of differing thought.

Government schools prepare the children to be good little union workers for the multinational corporations. This way, the government can ensure the multinationals of the thing they need the most - a steady supply of ignorant workers, who know just enough to put the round peg in the round hole. They may not know why the round one goes there, but since it works, they accept it.