> So, it sounds like your solution is to just give up.
> Public education isn’t going away, no matter how much you
> try to “starve” it.
Do you support tax-funded government-run medicine, too?
This is the same thing, only with education.
Enough is enough.
If a group of parents wants to form an education cooperative, fine. That’s their prerogative.
But compelling everyone else by threat of force to participate in and PAY for it, even people who don’t have school age children, is collectivism.
No. However, those are two different issues.
This is the same thing, only with education.
Not necessarily.
Enough is enough.
I don't disagree. However, strategically, it makes more sense to try to recapture an institution that is not going to go away than to try to abolish it. The only chance to disassemble the public education system is to first gain control of it. Even then, I doubt it happens because too many people want public education, even many people who are complaining about what is being taught. The vast majority of the critics of the public education want it reformed, not eliminated.
But compelling everyone else by threat of force to participate in and PAY for it, even people who don’t have school age children, is collectivism.
Any society is going to have some degree of collectivism. The question is where you draw the line.
See http://www.sepschool.org/
Unrelated to our discussion, how old is this website? Some of the supporter information seems to be 10 years or more out of date. In the banner on the right hand side, there is featured supporter who was forced to abandon his pastorate because of serious charges of marital infidelity and as a result of these accusations to close down the organization that he is shown to be affiliated with. It might be wise to drop that listing. In the full list of supporters, numerous updates are needed.