Reading this question very strictly, I would say yes.

I think compulsory education laws can be biblical. I don't know if any laws on the books are biblical (or can be at this time), but I think it's possible. A State does have a natural interest in the education of it's citizens, and may therefor compel them to be educated by what-ever information or standard they think is best. This might include required attendance at specific State controlled institutions. And so as long as the State did not try to teach something contrary to Christian doctrine, I don't see how it would be necessarily unbiblical.

But the answer (True) to the question does not imply that the State can deny the parents the right to educate their own children in addition to the State. That would be unconstitutional and unbiblical. Any law restricting the rights of a parent to educate their own children would require an amendment to state or U.S. Constitutions; and would be contrary to our Christian duty to educate our children in the ways of the Lord.

I don't think such compulsory education laws are should be considered constitutional in most states in the U.S. I think we have a constitutional right to educate our children in place of State education, unless the State specifically takes that right away. In other words, we still have the right to keep our children out of the State education system. And since, most public education institutions teach some views that are antithetical to Christianity, then parents have a biblical/moral right to educate their children in the place of the State.

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R. Anthony Coletti
Midway Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Jonesborough, TN
[i]et venite et arguite me dicit Dominus[/i]