Tim Daneliuk wrote:

Say a parent is conciously failing to educate a child and
Government has to remove them from that home.

If the government is out of the education business and the educational
standards business, then who is determining if the parent is failing
to educate the child and where are they getting their standards?

Further, the masses being as they are, using your method, I envision a
scenario where there are great gulfs between a relatively small number
of educated and large numbers of uneducated (a hundred fold what it is
now), and that the limited government interdiction you propose above
would be largely unable to control the deteriorating situation.

Can you at least get behind the idea that some sort of public
involvement in education, despite all of its shortcomings, is the best
way possible to raise the education level of the masses, and that the
removal of public involvement would effectively "dumb us down"? That
if we value the idea of and strength of a "middle class", your vision
(in it's most strict form) would erode that middle class and we would
gravitate more towards a small, affluent and educated elite and masses
of poor and uneducated?

Joe Barta