**Tuition-free** is what's wrong with the statement.
But...Please think about this for a moment. What are government schools charging parents? The fee to parents for our **price-fixed** government monopoly schools is tuition-free.
Therefore...Until conservatives can shut down and close the doors on our price-fixed government schools, they will need to match this tuition-free price. If they don't, parents will continue to send their kids to the government schools and we will never get rid of them.
Once government schooling is completely shut down, parents should be expected to take on the cost of educating their own children with charity paying for the poor.
And...please think about one more thing:
Harvard has an endowment of 35 BILLION! If Harvard wanted, it could fund its operations on its endowment alone without ever charging students a penny in tuition. Americans are very very generous, and are very committed to education. Isn't Harvard's endowment, and the endowments ( in the BILLIONS) of universities and colleges across this nation, proof of that?
Personally, I believe it is possible for K-12 education foundations to eventually be so well endowed that no parent in the U.S. would ever again need to pay a penny in K-12 tuition. In fact, if government hadn't distorted the market by opening government owned and run, socialist-funded, single payer, schools in the mid-1800s to early 1900s, perhaps today we would have PRIVATE K-12 educational foundations that were so well endowed that our nation's children would be attending well-endowed tuition-free **private** schools today.
When government dispenses free stuff, the people receiving it develop a sense of entitlement.
If privately endowed education foundations were dispensing private vouchers for private schools the lesson learned would be gratitude, and it would be an object lesson in learning to be generous themselves to those who come after them.
I **know** that there are many Catholics alive today, who attended tuition-free Catholic parochial schools, who are very **grateful** that generous parishioners and volunteers made their private Catholic education possible. My husband, his and my cousins, and our parents are among those who attended tuition-free parochial schools.
Also...Were you aware that **today** every Catholic child in Wichita Kansas, has access to a tuition-free Catholic education.
Finally,...Is it possible to shut down government schooling and provide all the nation's children with a private conservative education? Yes, I believe it is.
How?
Private education foundations would award grants to individual teachers who would open small one-room schools ( homeschools) in their own homes or small rented spaces. The foundations would certify the teacher, approve the curriculum, test the students, and run community-wide sports, theater, science, arts, and music programs. By avoiding the Prussian-model, prison-like school, many of the expenses of building and maintaining a large infrastructure is avoided, and we know from the homeschoolers that it is possible to have an excellent education at the kitchen table.
"What are government schools charging parents? The fee to parents for our **price-fixed** government monopoly schools is tuition-free."
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Most conservatives are not stupid enough to neglect the fact that they RIGHT NOW must pay school tax -- whether or not they have children in school.
I am elderly and retired; why is my property taxed to support public schools?
I repeat: TANSTAAFL!!!