Why shouldn’t they be allowed? They pay taxes too.
Exactly.
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their parents pay taxes
You pay your school taxes so of course your children should have access. The vengeful school district administrators get paid a per diem for each child in their class rooms so they hate home schoolers
Follow the money and the greed
Public schools “lose” Federal funding with each “missing” student, so they don’t want to “give” anything to non-public school “scabs.”
As an example of the importance of having kids’ butts in the classroom chair, here’s a 2011 story out of San Diego:
“.....The attendance-based funding formula puts a bounty on the heads of students, forcing schools to meticulously track their absences – placing dollar amounts next to their names. Number 114 is one of 358 students on a list of the chronically absent at Lincoln High. A student is considered chronically absent if he or she misses 10 percent or more of the 180-day school year.
At Ramona Unified, 473 chronically absent students cost the district $355,566.77 last year. Twenty-seven of them missed at least a quarter of the school year. Two were absent more than 100 days....”
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jun/27/chronically-absent-students-cost-county-schools-mi/
True.
If parents of homeschoolers and charter schoolers were exempt from paying ‘school taxes’, then these people might have a reason to complain.
True...the are taxpayers too!!!
I guess all taxpayers are equal. Its just that those who use government schools are more equal than others.
I look at it this way. Parents do not pay taxes for their children to go to school. They pay taxes to “pay society back” for their opportunity of a public education. People with no children pay school taxes, and one is not charged taxes on a per student basis.
Todays children will be expected to pay for their opportunities in the future. Simply because they do not take advantage of what is offered, home school, private schooling what have you, the opportunity of the public education is there. They will be expected to pay for it.
So if todays children are actually paying for what is going on in todays public schools, and all they want to take advantage of is some sports or other activities, they should not be denied, as they are going to get the bill for it anyway.
Yes, people who send their kids to private or religious schools pay twice for their education.
Now, in the state of Washington, this had already happened some years ago, so that kids in private schools could join sports teams at the local public schools.