Posted on 07/08/2020 1:02:36 PM PDT by knighthawk
Give parents a refundable tax credit in an amount sufficient to send their daughters and sons to excellent private schools.
The only refund they are entitled to is the portion of property tax paid to fund the schools. From my experience, that is insufficient to pay for an “excellent private school”
“I wonder if coaches who are paid continued to receive that money though there were no sports being played.”
Most likely yes. But aside from that. The sports programs normally cost a lot to run. Equipment, uniforms, Use of facilities, And busing to away games all over the area. And the cost of doing home games as well. Where the public is present. Somehow they can rake up a normal cost of around a million dollars for a medium sized school.
Amen. Here’s a perfect opportunity to shut down the public school system and implement school choice, for example.
It isn’t about what they’re entitled to.
It isn’t about a refund on property taxes.
It is about getting students out of bad public schools and into excellent private schools.
I’d be happy enough, as a start, to just get the feds out of it.
Even though I mentioned “school choice,” I’d prefer all education were privatized. So, I agree that eliminating federal funding is a good first step.
That works for a few million students at best. What about the remaining 47 million?
Fauci is a Saint, now, so cut him off and CNN will give him a nightly two-hour series on what an idiot Trump is and how he never listed to Fauci's "urgent pleas to save lives."
Better to keep him on the payroll and pretend to take him seriously.
Increased demand for private schools will result in an increased supply of private schools.
Of what quality. To meet the demand, they will have to hire public school teachers and public school administrators. Or the bottom half of the educations school graduates from the Universities. The point will to be to make money, not necessarily provide a high quality education.
I support private schools. All my kids went to Catholic parochial schools. The schools cost me an arm and a leg, they did an excellent job of educating my kids. But you are not going to educate the 50 or so million kids of school age in private schools that are the equivalent of the one my kids attended.
A lot of students would get much better educations in private schools than they could even dream of getting in public schools.
Of course, there would be a process of building new private schools, and there would be some that were, like public schools, of lesser quality at first.
Those would be weeded out by the market system in time.
Everything takes time.
No claim has been made that there would be ubiquitous perfection all at once.
Again, when the bottom line is to make a profit, mass private schooling will produce about the same results we have now.
I disagree with that.
Profit motivation will drive private schools to deliver what parents want.
As long as parents want quality education, and understand what that entails, they will get it.
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