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Public Schools aren't just benefiting people with kids. It benefits society (a society you and OP are members of). Getting rid of schools is like getting rid of the military. Maybe you feel like you don't personally benefit from it and you want your taxes back, but that's not how it works.

Not should it. An ideal government functions to help the people not individual persons.

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>”Getting rid of schools is like getting rid of the military.”

I see national defense and public schools as very different. Defense is a non-excludable, fixed cost, so-called ‘public good’. Primary and secondary education are not public goods, though they may be long-term investments (which defense is not).

I am not saying that I ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ either, but they’re very different.

>”An ideal government functions to help the people not individual persons.”

I’ve never heard this argument before, could you please elaborate, or point to a good source for your “ideal government” ethical framework?

Defense seems very excludable. If I've got a gun, I'm doing the defense by myself. No need to pay for aircraft carriers in the middle of the unpopulated ocean

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