Back in the "olden days," didn't the local community pay what they could for a teacher and a schoolhouse?
Educated citizens are necessary for the success of each town, city, and county.
Capitalistic is good but there would have to be someone or something to force some no good parents to send their kids to school and pay for it.
There would be charity for people who couldn’t afford schools.
Healthy citizens are as necessary as educated ones but we don’t have socialized medicine.
What gives you the right to force a parent to send their kids to school?
There are kids who would be better off out of school learning a trade than warming a seat and taking the teachers time.
Back in the “olden days,” didn’t the local community pay what they could for a teacher and a schoolhouse?
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Please read post #46.
No, government schools can not be reformed “if only” we could go back to the old days where local government threatened citizens with police force to pay taxes for an educational service that parents wanted for free.
Again, please read post #46. The problem with government schools is that they are ( an always have been) **socialism**! It is impossible to reform socialism!
That's exactly the thinking that got us here...and anti-Catholic Protestants.
The premise that forcing a good idea on someone is absurd on its face.