[Ouderkirk]

I appreciate where you’re coming from, but they issue then becomes how does a community fund it’s schools?

Do they charge tuition like a private, and what about those who can’t afford to pay the whole nut for their kids?

...I don’t have the right answer and maybe the best place to start is to decertify the teacher’s unions and have the local school board set the local policy for teachers salary and pensions rather than have them contribute to a state run system.

Unless you change most state constitutions to eliminate the requirement of compulsory education, all of this is tilting at windmills

[knarf]

I AM on the local school board ... and I'm NOT a financial wizard ... but I know there is a better way to fund government schools than to tax people that don't like the government NOR their schools

Let the government teachers do a good enough job that they actually pay their own pensions ... that's the issue I posed to begin with

Eventually, the fund (should? would? .. might?) get big enough to fund the school