Posted on 07/13/2018 10:32:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SAPPINGTON, Mo. (AP) — Like many other parents, Rachel Major moved to the Lindbergh School District in 2006 because she wanted good public schools.
Lindbergh, a slice of south St. Louis County where a typical home costs more than $200,000, is one of the highest-rated school districts in Missouri.
But when her oldest son was finishing preschool two years ago, she was surprised to learn that she would have to pay $3,500 for him to attend Lindbergh's full-day kindergarten.
"Why are we paying tuition to a public school?" said Major, whose 5-year-old daughter will start full-day kindergarten at Sappington Elementary in August....
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“Why are we paying tuition to a public school?”
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My guess is it’s because it’s full day. She’s paying for babysitting.
The article is a push for free kindergarten for all — it just casually glides over the fact that the kindergarten is already free for some (if they don’t speak English).
Once again US citizens are getting screwed.
Once again US media doesn’t find that angle very interesting.
>>According to the district, English language learners get to attend full day for free.
Heck, at 5 years old, they are ALL “English language learners”. Or is there some other pigmentation requirement?
So the working parents, in this school district get whacked twice:
1. They have to pay for their kids to attend a public school.
2. Illegals aka undocumented kids get a free ride.
Public schools = socialism.
What gets me is that the same people who say “free” health care equals socialism or “free” housing equals socialism never see the obvious. “Public” education is the gateway drug for socialism.
We’re all already paying billions upon billions in taxes for it.
You pay because you are White and productive, so that non-Whites can not pay.
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They pay taxes and then tuition for school?
Double dipping by the school district.
Lawsuit time.
Government buses drive around collecting the children to bring them to government facilities to be taught what the government deems appropriate, with parents actively barred from input in the process. And people are fine with it.
shit ain’t free for anyone that pays rent or owns a home ;)
unless your an illegal on section 8...
then the shits free..
That smacks of Lenin and Pol Pot, like modern lefties saying we need to purge “the rich.” Granted the idea of hereditary social privilege via being “noble” is absurd, there were nobles of mant degrees and thousands of them were willing to accept reform. Many such as Lafayette supported the revolution before it spiralled into irredeemable madness. To predicate reform upon the blanket slaughter of people for their status by birth is equally absurd as letting them rule because of that same status.
Yep! Public schools are a socialist entitlement.
School choice exists in a very limited way.
Those parent who want excellent schools for their children are often willing to pay more in order to purchase a house in a school district that has good schools.
The most important measure of whether children will do well in school, is how much their parents are involved in wanting them to do well.
So this is a positive feedback loop.
The differential can easily be $100,000 per house in a school district.
If you want your housing prices to rise, do all you can to make the school district you are in stand out as a superior school.
This does not work well in rural areas, where moving to different school districts is nearly impossible.
Re: Public schooling is still a socialist entitlement.
I am simply illustrating that the market responds in unique ways to the desire for good schools, even in the face of extreme regulation of the school systems.
I agree.
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