[jboot]

What would replace them then?

Ideally nothing. If your child is hungry, you go buy food. If your child is cold, you go buy him a coat. If your child is uneducated, it follows that you need to provide him an education. By asking the government to educate him instead you virtually beg for him to be ruined.

[Biggirl]

Post number 10 also has good ideas also.

[Biggirl]

Private and faith-based schools do a wonderful job in education.