True enough.
I pay almost $15,000 a year in property tax.
And then I could also pay for some type of private or parochial school.
Or I could homeschool.
I’d like my tax money which is intended for children’s education to be made available to me for children’s education.
But that’s not the current situation.
I agree with you. I never attended a public school and my parents paid for my education AND they paid their property taxes … on my dad’s working class income.
Of course, this was before the teachers unions would strike the public schools and hold out for their demands. And I have personally heard public school classroom teachers tell their students to go home and insist to their parents to vote yes on school levies.
Milton Friedman said that if you are going to subsidize a transaction, subsidize the buyer.
Check out his wife’s work on school choice.
There’s a lot of concern among homeschoolers that getting a break like that can allow a foot in the door for the government to regulate the homeschooling and curriculum choices.
Even if it’s a break, some leftists like to say that’s the same as receiving government subsidies and should be eligible for government oversight.
Backwards thinking for sure, but that is one major reason homeschoolers have never pushed for that kind of break or school choice option.
Matter of fact, in Maine, some districts don’t have a high school, so the parents are given a stipend to send their kids wherever they want and this exact issue has come up, lots of pushback for it being used for Christian, Catholic, or homeschooling.
Only public indoctrination institutions allowed.
I’d like my tax money which is intended for children’s education to be made available to me for children’s education. But that’s not the current situation.
...and government is not going to go quietly into the night and give up its position over the indoctrination of children at taxpayer expense with the sudden desire of a few awakened individuals.
It will take an army of like minded with the will to crush the long standing “system” to get “education” back to the one room school house days that in my opinion was responsible for winning WWII.
The present system is a billion dollar industry in the hands of government from beginning to end and we the people have made it all possible.