Posted on 06/18/2005 8:15:49 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Not exactly. In many states, the homeschoolers are required to provide attendance records to the school district - so that the school district can claim the state and/or federal assistance money for that child. Further, the local school taxes paid by the family still go to the school district.
As far as choices and sacifices, the sacrifice is borne by the family - they pay TWICE for their child's education. First, through taxes. Second, through spending their own time and money to school at home. To now say that, barring state laws that preclude her participation (a whole other issue), her musical talents must be sacrificed on the altar of NEA control doesn't make sense.
Yeah. Sports and band. Chess club, too. If your private school doesn't offer it.
"Why don't I get the percentage of MY taxes that goes to public schools refunded?"
Creeping Socialism.
Nobody is "entitled" to be in a band in a school that they are not attending. She should be allowed to be in the school band just because she plays an instrument and lives in the area? That's ridiculous. Her parents made the decision to home-school her, let them live with the consequences of that decision.
Yes! Said more clearly than me with the conclusion I want! All people paid by government taxes should be required to be community-freindly. All these public service unions have become little socialist cells and enclaves. It is time to make public service respectable again. It is 75 years from 1930 and it is time for a change here, don't you think?
"People will complain about tax monies buying books that aren't to their taste"
A good reson to stop government funding of groups like PBS, NPR and the UN. Nothing tasteful about leftists.
I see. So, if somebody is being "denied a service" that they are "entitled to receive", they should get their money back, but if somebody else is paying through the nose for that "entitlement" with no intention of ever using the "service", they should have to continue to pay through the nose?
It never ceases to amaze me how home-schooling parents consistently demand that they should get MY money back in THEIR pocket. I want MY money back in MY pocket!
Must depend on the state you live in because what you KNOW doesn't apply in my state. Payment is based on core classes - not extra-curriculars.
In contract law, no one is allowed to pay for services they don't use. Apply this logic to the tax reform question. Shreiks and bellows will be heard coast-to-coast.
You said it yourself, but you don't seem to understand it:
She WOULD be attending if they let her attend...
This was the parent's decision. They decided to opt out of the public school system. The school band is part of the public school system. It was their decision. They have to live with it.
In contract law, no one is allowed to pay for services they don't use.
Of course you're ALLOWED to pay for services you don't use. I can order cable TV, not use it, but pay my bill every month. The cable TV company won't tell me I'm not allowed to pay.
I've sent three children through Lincoln Public Schools. One marched in the East High band for four years. i found the education they received to be uniformaly high quality, and I'm tired of knee-jerk attacks on the public school system. Some public schools suck, some don't. Some homeschooled kids get a decent education, some don't.
It's also THEIR decision to let her attend to play in the band. Get it?
I pay taxes. I currently have no kids in the school district. What do I get?
I pay taxes. I currently have no kids in the school district. What do I get?
Uh, a community in which the kids have a better chance of finding a job and less motive for bonking you on the head for your wallet? Perhaps a few high achievers who leave the community for higher education and then come back as doctors or civil engineers? It's a long list...
In other words, exactly what these homeschooling parents get. Now tell me again why they're entitled to something extra?
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