In my county nearly 70% of our property taxes go to support the godless and socialist-funded government schools. In other words, government schools have turned our nation into a nation of **renters** with the government as the landlord.
No one owns their home or business in the U.S. The godless government schools do! We are merely serfs paying property tax **RENT***!!!
Then add to the property taxes that all citizens pay ( renters, too, through their rents) the sales, and income taxes, licensing fees, user fees, and many other hidden taxes. Dig a little bit and then see how much money goes to government schooling and their employees ( current and retired).
We are a nation of serfs! The government school is our overseer.
Personally, lets call it what it is: ABUSE. It is a human rights abuse. It is family abuse. It is child abuse when a mother is ripped out of their home, away from her children, and into the workplace, just to earn the money to pay **rent** to the government schools.
It is also worker abuse when companies move overseas, leaving millions unemployed, just so the owners of the businesses can escape paying **rent** to the government schools in the form of property and equipment taxes.
It is worker abuse when they lose their jobs because the product they make can no longer be sold abroad. The cost of the product plus the **rent** to the government schools ( in the form of property taxes) make the produce unsellable in foreign countries.
Godless and socialist government schools are evil. And the people who run these godless schools are either clueless Useful Idiots or they are EVIL!
Do we want to balance or state, federal, and county budgets? EASY! Give everyone a tax credit or voucher tomorrow, and start charging the **full** cost to parents of the cost of the government school. And get rid of regulations! There is no reason why a teacher shouldn't be able to open a one room school in her home. The regulation should be no more onerous than those used for day care providers.
Once a private infrastructure is build start reducing the amount of the vouchers until parent pay the full cost of educating their **own** children with charity paying for the poorest. What is needed is complete separation of school and state.
( Yeah! I am shouting. I am exasperated at how few conservatives understand this very basic principle.)
I agree with everything you say, wintertime.
SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE!
For every reason you just stated, and more.
I also think that if very small local communities or groups want to start schools, fine - they wouldn’t be exactly “public” as understood now, but local community schools and they could organize them how they wish.
Every bit of federal oversight or control must be eliminated in toto. States could make what laws they want but with more accountability locally, and LESS FEDGOV MONEY TO SPEND (hey - let’s bring it down to ZERO), state gov’s would be much more accountable to the state citizens.