Cato Institute's Neal McCluskey Says Public Schools Lead to Civil Wars

We have had a public school system in America for decades, do they cause civil wars?

Do public schools cause civil wars? Well, a commentary on the Cato Institute website seems to think so.  Is this a subtle dig at the millions of black and Latino children who attend public schools in America? You be the judge. Here's an excerpt.

In Iowa, They Know Why We Fight
Posted by Neal McCluskey

Why do public schools create lots of conflict? Because, as I labored to explain in my Policy Analysis Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict, they force people with diverse views to support a single system of schools, making battles over whose values the schools will teach almost inevitable. Well, in Shenandoah, Iowa — where the people are in a huge row over sex ed – district superintendent Dick Profit summarized the problem much more colorfully, and effectively, than I have:

It’s a political hot potato; it’s a religious hot potato; it’s a parental hot potato…It’s all of these things that cause a crack in the system between society, parents and schools, and we’re still required to do it.

Haven't we always had a public school system across the United States, and dare I say the world? Many great leaders have come out of the public school system. If we only had private schools America's would be at the bottom of the list because only the wealthy could afford to send their children to private schools.