Because it’s run by government.
End of discussion. The only thing government does better than private enterprise is national defense, because nobody but the government has the money to do that on the necessary scale.
(And I give them a kiss on the interstate highway system, even though it's a swindle :-).
Seems RINOs and DEMS are only interested in protecting systems and monopolies,not people.Keeping the status quo is easier than innovating.
If vouchers are going to “siphon money from government schools” why isn’t the same true in higher education? I don’t hear state college professors running around crying about Pell grant(”government dollars”) money “unfairly” being used to attend St.Thomas,Gustavus,St.Johns or
other private religiously affiliated schools.
What happened to the imaginary wall of church and state there?
Since government doesn’t create wealth and only consumes it, how can it “give parents back” what was always theirs anyway?
Part of the beauty of being an American is choices.Look in the yellow pages. Thirty-one flavors or thirty thousand attorneys to choose from.Variety is a good thing.Some may choose schools for proximity,some for class size,some for shared belief systems,or a class for gifted
mathematicians.Why is choice and competition considered good in everything except education?
The interstates were originally justified as for Defense because Eisenhower had long noted that it was very time-consuming to move military supplies across the country. The I’states vastly improved that situation as well as made it easier to go visit Grandma.