Education is a human right. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a26

Of all of the countries that are top performing (as rated by NCEE), which have privatized school systems?

http://www.ncee.org/programs-affiliates/center-on-internatio...

>Education isn't a right. It is a choice.

That's a poorly thought out platitude. Plenty of rights are also choices such as the right to vote, to remain silent, to bear arms, to a trial by jury.

I can tell with certainty that my kids do not have all that much choice when it comes to education. By the time they will be old enough to get that choice, their education will be mostly done thing.

No, it's your duty. Society suffers, in general, when people are not educated. We really should insist on requiring more of people.

You can say the same thing about public sanitation.