If ignorance is bliss, then bliss must be ignorance. Therefore, to pursue happiness, i.e. bliss, one must pursue ignorance. That would stand at cross purposes with the current federal feeling that schools are good, when in fact, to force children to go to school is denying them their rights according to the Declaration of Independance.
By the same token, the school systems are not denying rights because, frankly, all we have a guarantee to do in the Declaration is to pursue happiness, so children do not have a right to cease going to school, but they do have a right to not learn anything (which, to judge by the nation's test scores, is a right many of them are exercising). We can force people to do things that might concievably lead to infringements on their rights as long as we give them an option not to participate.
The question, however, is whether ignorance is really bliss at all. If it is, then our nation's youngsters, not to mention many other people, are being gradually driven away from happiness. If it isn't, then all the people who are happy must know something that we poor sods who wander around being unhappy don't.
This is why I propose a third option. Both ignorance and unhappiness, though unrelated, are very bad, so we must work to stamp both of them out. This is the purpose behind this humble site; to keep people happy and knowledgable.
No, wait, forget what I just said about knowledge. This site should be concerned with happiness only. Knowledge is someone else's problem. Some of the happiest people I know are the stupidest, so I'll just work one way. If anyone out there would like to tackle the knowledge problem, drop me a line and we'll hash out our respective turfs.