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But he can't unless he wants to dramatically and perhaps dangerously increase the government's control over family life. Throughout the western world, people use the freedom that world affords them to make monumentally stupid, narrow-minded, and destructive choices for themselves and their children. As long as what they are doing doesn't cause direct harm to society or rise to the level of child abuse or endangerment (which we tend to define as an issue of physical safety), we give them the leeway to do this.
I do think that a government has a right, if it chooses to do so, to require all students to attend public schools, although I also believe that even within those schools, every effort must be made to respect religious freedom. There is a difference, however, between saying that all children must be at least exposed to an education based on agreed-upon French values and that they are not free to deviate from those values in a non-harmful way upon reaching adulthood
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