School taxes, property taxes, and taxes on labor should all be repealed. Conservatives who oppose paying for deadbeats on welfare should oppose all of them. It’s hypocritical to favor school and property taxes because you personally benefit from them.
If these taxes were eliminated, most who have children would be able to educate their children for much less than the taxes they pay. There would be a free market and the quality of education would be much higher. Without confiscatory tax levels, many families would be able to live comfortably on one income with one parent staying home to provide homeschooling.
Property taxes are a particular abomination. It is like paying extortion to the government in order to keep the home that you have already bought and paid for.
Another reason:
Government schools destroy the environment! Really they do. Think about it.
If there was complete separation of school and state, families would not need to leave the cities to seek better schools for their children. Private schools would be freely available. People choosing to live in the environmentally fragile hinterlands would have to **pay** for the privilege of sending their child to a Prussian-model school!
As the government schooling deteriorates in the inner cities and surrounding suburbs, families ( rationally) move further outward seeking a better school setting for their children. They ( rationally) do not want their children **forced by threat of police and court action** into dangerous schools.
No matter where parents choose to live government schools are quickly built to accommodate their wishes. Country towns with one or two traffic lights grow into busy suburbs. Two lane highways become 6 lanes. Strip malls spring up. Farmland is chewed up. And...The big yellow school buses chug along with their cargo.
My husband and I like to ski in the West ( specifically Colorado and Utah). Inevitably, there is the big yellow school buses huffing and puffing up to the highest peaks to fetch children living in homes that sit on land that was once fragile and delicate alpine tundra.