I agree with you 100%! Living in Anne Arundel County in Maryland, my wife and I pay $5000 a year in property tax. We have no children, but if we did they would NOT go to public school! A family with six little kids in the apartments down the road pays nothing, yet reaps the benefits. Why is there not an exemption for those with no kids in the system?
Here is the fundamental argument that **all** conservatives should use when discussing government schooling:
Government schooling is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination. Why?
Answer: Because it is **impossible** to have a religiously, culturally, and politically neutral education. Such a state of neutrality can not be found in the mind of any sentient human and absolutely is impossible in any school. When government runs schools and **FORCES** children to attend and taxpayers to pay for it, government is imposing a NON-neutral religious, political, and cultural worldview on captive children and forcing taxpayers to pay for it!
Government schooling teaches children to think and reason in a NON-neutral GODLESS manner! Why?
Answer: Because any child who sits in a religiously NON-neutral godless government classroom **will** learn to think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the classroom, study the godless texts, and cooperate with the godless home assignments . How could it be otherwise?
The biggest political bully controlling the voting mob **will** dictate the NON-neutral religious, cultural, and political worldview taught to the next generation of voters.
Finally....Property taxes which fund the NON-neutral government schools turn every business owner and home owner into government RENTERS! No one in this nation owns property. We rent it from the government!