Control of Content of Education

With UK school children having been encouraged by their teachers to watch the BBC's extraordinarily licentious, incoherent and violence-filled Rome for educational purposes (HT: MK), and with the penny dropping in the US for parents who send their children to state schools that they have no legal right to control the content of education, (HT: Daryl and Caerdroia) we are wondering if a previous prediction of all children out of school in over a century and a half, was a huge, huge over-estimate!