The business people of the town contributed. The builders and artisans were unionized. As members of craft guilds, they trained each one of their apprentices and held each other to strict standards of excellence. The collective responsibility and commitment is largely why the cathedrals of 800 years ago endure today. This is a frank, up-front admission that government schools must become the focal point of society just as the cathedrals of the institutional church were in the medieval era.
Government schools are the new integrating factor of all of life.
Parents who break with this mammoth institutional union of church and state are saying, in effect, My Christianity is important enough for me that I will not surrender my children to the clutches of its avowed enemies. They are affirming that they are willing to make any sacrifice necessary to protect their children from the false religion of modern statist secularism. This requires a clear, unshakable devotion to their God. They have specifically chosen to take the difficult and right road. The easy road is to allow their property taxes to finance the primary and secondary education of their children.