PS — How is your choice restricted? Homeschool or private school. The government isn’t stopping you from doing either.
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Straight from the NEA talking points!
Gracedad, you are here on Free Republic. The people here are smart. This is not MSN Groups.
1) Yes, parents are still free to **ransom** their children from the government prison camps ( mis-named “schools”) Call this what it truly **is**: Parents must pay a religious and freedom conscience tax!
2)The government is running a price-fixed monopoly that is giving a product away for FREE! These price-fixing, monopolistic practices mean that my county has NO private schools! Not one! This is NO choice in my county for a private school! The price-fixing practices of government schools nearly guarantee this!
If CEOs of a private industry tried this they would be in prison almost immediately! Only the government could get away with such a large scale, nation-wide, price-fixing, monopolistic scheme, and get away with it!
It's not, because I'm rich.
But some folks don't have the means to drop an extra $20K on their children's secondary education, in addition to, in my case, $2800 in county school taxes.
You are right. They just tax thew Cr*p out of us, so that sending our kids to private school/homeschooling, in effect costs families twice as much as it should. Thus families with less "means" are forced into government indoctrination centers by default.