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I'm less concerned about motivations than what I perceive to be the purpose of public education. In my mind, it is to serve the society as a whole. It is paid for by the tax-payers. A student's parents are a VERY small subset of that society and therefore I have problems with parents being able to opt their children out of portions of that education. In many cases they can even opt their children out of special education that has been diagnosed as needed by the child. Parents, of course have the 'right' to opt out of public education altogether--private school, home schooling--but selective opt-outs should not, IMO, be part of the public system.