Only in the broadest sense of the word fascist to mean "something I don't like". The public school system can be bad without it being bad in a way that precisely pattern-matches to Mussolini's control of Italy.
Fascism isn't a precise pattern-match to Mussolini's Italy, it's a vague region of concept space which contains Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and many others.
Only in the broadest sense of the word fascist to mean "something I don't like". The public school system can be bad without it being bad in a way that precisely pattern-matches to Mussolini's control of Italy.
Fascism isn't a precise pattern-match to Mussolini's Italy, it's a vague region of concept space which contains Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and many others.