I'm not trying to comment on whether or not education should be a right, I'm just saying that believing it should be given our current system has had some negative repercussions.

Which is fine, but my comment was addressing the right to education.

I would say there is a major difference between local property owners paying reasonable sums for children to become literate (k-12)...

and a nation paying highly unreasonable and ballooning sums of money so that a functional literate adult can obtain an education that rarely leads to 10x better outcomes