The Native Americans would have slaughtered the settlers with superior weapons and driven them back into the sea instead of welcoming them with open arms. If the Native Americans had been like the white men, they would have never made any treaty except to steal more land and ravage the white man to extinction. If the Native Americans had been like the white man, the white man would be sitting on a barren stretch of parched earth lacking any of the basic necessities of life reduced to begging for handouts. By 1887 more than two-hundred schools were erected under federal government supervision. The enrollment was over fourteen thousand.
Public schools are state funded by land taxes, and the curriculum is picked by the state.
When a student graduates, he receives a state certificate of completion. He is now state certified for work. This is all done without parental approval. In other words, the state does not write to the parent asking for permission to teach certain subjects or ask for approval for certain required reading material. But if a parent wants to control the curriculum, the manner of education, and wants to be the teacher, it is different.