It doesn't currently work that way. A school system is not awarded money based on the quantity of pupils. It is awarded money based on the amount of property taxes paid. Government school districts love it when kids are homeschooled because that leaves more money for everyone else. If suddenly no students showed up at government schools, I am sure our bolshevik overlords would find something else to spend those tax dollars on.
The only way to fight it is to install a voucher system and require principals at government schools to set their own tuition amounts. Every kid gets a voucher to go to school, whether public or private. And Every kid can choose whatever school he/she attends, whether public or private. If a school happens to charge more than the voucher is worth, the parents will have to make up the difference. If a school charges less, the parents collect the difference. And if a public school cannot attract enough students to maintain operating costs, they go out of business.
Just think, principals would be competing against each other for the best teachers, paying higher salaries, and they would actually have the freedom to fire bad teachers. What a novel concept.
To a certain extent, it is. But, money is not all that I meant by the word "support".
Government school districts love it when kids are homeschooled because that leaves more money for everyone else.
In my state, that's the way it works. But, that's not true everywhere.
I'm not a fan of a voucher system, though so far I'd prefer the idea of tax deductions. I agree that a voucher system would result in more competition. But, I suspect it would end up with all schools becoming like public schools. I'd prefer the free market.
The term "homeschooling" is a misnomer in most cases. What we're really doing is buying education on the free market. Instead of enrolling our children into private schools, homeschool families establish cooperatives and organizations, purchase educational books and materials on their own, and enroll their children into classes here and there. There are classes held at museums, art schools, colleges, churches, and so on. There are cyberschools, too. The free market works. I only wish more families were willing to buy education on the free market because then we'd all enjoy many more choices.
It must be regional because here the school districts are concerned about pupil attendance because of funding. It’s important for the schools to have a certain number of kids per day and yes the State funds in that way. At least here where I live. Also, the more students in special ed programs, the more funding for those program. A district has to have a certain number in the spec ed program to continue to receive funding. It’s overlapped to private and Catholic schools now too. The more kids in spec ed, the more funding for spec ed in that district. It’s created a downside of labeling kids as spec ed, or encouraging them into the spec ed programs, when some of those kids don’t belong there.
I’m thrilled with our high school district and the education my kids are receiving. I don’t follow SOME of the home school only people on here and consider them kooks. However, if we look at the public education system, there’s no argument when it comes to funding. At least not in this area. It matters when it comes to attendence and it matters when it comes to the spec ed programs. They have to keep up the numbers in both.
I disagree in how to fight. Parents have to parent their kids and be involved in the education system in our Country regardless of what is going on. Others choose to give it up and do their own thing, which is their right, and others choose to fight it out. Good luck to those on the other side and good luck to those of us who won’t allow the education system to be controlled by those who want to destroy this country. I’m all for homeschooling and private schooling and Catholic schooling (and my kids are Catholic and public schooled and do just fine). Bottom line is we all do what is best for our kids and screw anyone who thnks otherwise and wants to control us with their own agenda.
Schools, in this area, have funding per student present. I don’t know what it’s like in other areas, but here, funding is somewhat dependent on attendance.
Granted, property taxes play a part and of course school districts like when kids are homeschooled or private schooled. That’s why the argument that school districts will hate if parents homeshool or private school their kids just doesn’t work. The property taxes don’t change and most school districts like when they don’t have those extra kids.