[Element187]

When the government gets into the business of providing something that parents are unwilling to pay for themselves then why shouldn't the govenrment have a say over where their money is going? Why shouldn't the government be able to tell the schools what to teach and how to teach it? Who they must let in and who they cannot keep out? And if the government can do all that then how long before all private schools are at the same level as public schools?

the government isn't getting into the business of providing the education any longer... instead of our tax money of 15k per child to attend government education, the money is now diverted in a voucher so a parent can send their children to a higher quality school...if anything that will make all govenrment run education more competitive, and encourage more private companys to start opening schools.

[Tired of Taxes]

My state has the highest property taxes in the nation (as my tagline says). School taxes make up the bulk of those taxes, and we homeschool our kids.

I understand the benefit in encouraging competition among schools, but that can be achieved just as well (and free from government intrusion) on the open market.

The solution is not government funding of more schools... The solution is to cut funding of education altogether. The general public has been conned into believing that children won't learn how to read, write, and do arithmetic unless the state is funding schools.

We pay a lot of money in school taxes every year so that the neighborhood kids, whose parents can afford to drive big SUVs and take expensive vacations to Disneyworld, can attend public school everyday. I don't want to have to pay for their private school tuition, either. I want their parents to foot the bill for their own kids, instead of raising school taxes year after year and taking even more money away from my kids.