Here! Here! latina4dubya! Government should not be running schools OR financing them. The FEDERAL government should not spend one PENNY on "education." The poor, the retarded, orphans--all could be taken care of infinitely better by private charity than by government.
exactly--this is an area where the church used to step in... and their main goal was to teach children to READ... it's amazing that while abled bodies would never even think of obtaining public housing, they so readily accept public education--no questions asked...