We have put our children in a Christian private school for these exact reasons but I can understand (and feel) the frustration of those that have to pay high taxes to support a school system that you don't benefit from and think is detrimental to children. If we could opt out of the system and get a refund (so to speak) it would take the sting out of having to pay again for private school.
Vouchers would change everything. Too bad Bush caved and let Ted Kennedy write that NCLB abomination.
Where are the small government conservatives? Not in DC apparently.
My husband and I also pay high taxes for a school system we do not benefit from, because we did not have children at all. However, we don't complain about it because it is beneficial to society to educate its future citizens. We don't expect a refund simply because we did not reproduce, yet you want one because you just don't want to use the public schools.
Why stop at the schools? Lets see, you should buy your own security guard, because the police cant be trusted and fire protection and roads (oops we are already strangled by toll roads).
Yep let government take 70 cents on every dollar you make and then go out and try to buy these things.
There are tons of things I "pay" for but don't use. Opting out simply isn't the answer.