Even though I'm almost universally anti government anti welfare anti socialist I believe that as a society we must educate all of our children. If we don't we will fail as a society. Do I think the best way to do that is government ran crap factories? No, I'm in favor of state funded private vouchers. The current districts would split off into nonprofit groups, or even be bought by companies. We'd be number one in education overnight.
However I don't think education is even close to the most urgent problem we have in America. After all the entire world wants to come to our universities, and a persons college education has a infinitely larger effect on a persons life than elementary or even high school.
I believe that as a society we should clothe all of our people and feed them as well.
That doesn't mean I want government made Levis and government grown tomatoes. It's a lead pipe cinch that the jeans wouldn't fit, would fall apart when I washed them, and that the tomatoes would get to market rotten.
Close the government schools down and let the people keep the money that's being extorted from them to pay for it. The private sectory would spring into the void almost overnight.
There's no such thing as 'state funded' my good man. There's only money the State took from you first so they could take their cut before they give it back to you.
I'm in favor of privately funded vouchers, namely green ones with pictures of dead white Presidents on them. That's the kind of voucher system I'm in favor of.
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