The only way in which a state-controlled school can be kept even relatively healthy is through the absolutely free possibility of competition by private schools and church schools; if it once becomes monopolistic, it is the most effective engine of tyranny and intellectual stagnation that has yet been devised period.
J. Gresham Machen (from Desiring God blog)
Don’t worry,
Obama promised: “In this budget, we will end education programs that don’t work.”
So he obviously is going to get rid of what we call the public school system.
So have no fears.