A child's parents will probably educate him or her better than the teacher he or she would have been assigned to at a public school.
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1) Public school means vastly different things, depending on which continent you live on.
2) Early education, maybe. If your parent is really talented in teaching _maybe_. But for specialized instruction and secondary education? Unlikely.
We can see from the entire Midwest region that this is clearly untrue.
There are absolutely no requirements for becoming a parent. I'd assume the average parent is fairly close to the average person. The average teacher has had to graduate from college, learn something about how to educate children (not enough, but something) and has some experience educating children.
I suspect that the person with some knowledge and experience is likely to be better than the person without.
There are some parents who surely can educate their children better than the schools can, but not most of them. Plus, most of them won't have the time to.
Do those regions constitute the majority of the Midwest? I would argue yes.
I don't really take into account the college towns, because they tend to be starkly unrepresentative of the general composition.
Hmm. Going by the voting record, though, it seems to trend more toward the rural.