[CalKat]

We have school choice now. Everyone has the choice to send their children to private school. They just have to pay for it themselves. What's wrong with that?

[jwalsh07]

We have school choice now. Everyone has the choice to send their children to private school. They just have to pay for it themselves. What's wrong with that?

The problem with that is parents who send their children to private school already have paid in taxes the cost of sending their children to public school.

Another problem with that is the simple fact that competition breeds efficiency.

[Lijahsbubbe]

And it is one of the last places of refuge from government.

[Aquinasfan]

Everyone has the choice to send their children to private school. They just have to pay for it themselves. What's wrong with that?

Parents who can't afford to homeschool or private school are forced to send their children, sometimes against their will, to schools where they are prevented from exercising their religion freely. If this doesn't constitute a violation of the "free exercise" clause of the First Amendment, I don't know what does.

A far more equitable system would be a voucher system, where all parents would be given an equal amount of money to be spent on tuition at the gov't or private school of their choice.