Good thing too, because they don't have to. Education can be provided at much lower cost privately than through bloated inefficient gov't bureaucracy.
Imagine what would happen to property taxes if education were eliminated.
then why do private K-12 schools cost 10,045$ just for yearly tuition? Your mistaken in that the cost to society would just go away, taxes may be lower, but people would still have to shell out thousands to charities and tens of thousands to pay for their children's education yearly. Spreading out the cost over all of society lets more people become educated.
And how has public education worked out for us so far?
You see the people even on this board. They cannot spell, they cannot write, they cannot marshal a coherent argument and they cannot assess evidence and evaluate it. Some of them cannot read a simple paragraph and draw logical conclusions from it. And yet I would gather most of them actually hold or held jobs in their working lives.
Ending public education would free up huge amounts of money in property tax. In my city, a sizeable metropolis, about 45% of the budget goes to education. Imagine if that money were freed for people to innovate their own educational communities.