Basic education is needed to give every child the opportunity to a good life.
Parents are thinking in short terms compared to a government who is thinking of the future. Parents will rather make sure their family got good money by making their children work than by having them educated.
Education makes children more aware of the world around them and they have the chance to choose which profession they want.
A government controlled and founded school is needed to give everybody the chance of a good education, rich as well as poor.
To the contrary I think that a school is very economical, a single teacher can educate many children compared to homeschooling.
In homeschooling parents only educate a few, and have to repeat the same education as they get more children. A parent have to spend a lot more time as a teacher, time that could be spend more productively on work and by having some one else acting as a teacher.
