hell, the public schools could even remain and compete against the "private." My guess is they wouldn't last very long.

I personally think public education is a good idea. I've noticed that many people seem to think the problem with public education is that it's funded with tax money, and that everything would be fixed if we just got rid of public education and replaced it with purely private education. But that isn't the real problem. The real problem is that our government is implementing regulations which require all schools, even private schools, to adhere to the counter-productive standards of outcome-based education, rather than traditional education.

If we were to assume (incorrectly) that the problem was whether the schools were funded with tax money or not, then naturally that misguided assumption would lead us to try and remove tax funding from public schools. But since the actual problem is not where the funding is coming from, but rather the goals of the administration and the type of curriculum being implemented, removing funding would be a counter-productive action, and would not further our goal of increasing the quality of education.

Even if we eliminated public schools altogether, and had only private schools, the problem of government imposing outcome based education (i.e. Common Core) would still remain.

We must correctly diagnose the real problem if we want to actually cure the disease. If we try to implement cures based on a misdiagnosis, we won't be able to actually cure anything, and may in fact make the problem worse through our actions. Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they are misinformed.