In no way did I suggest that government schools were expense-free or tax-free. Therefore....It is impossible for me to defend a strawman argument of your creation.
When a parent shows up their socialist-funded, single payer, Prussian-model, prison-like, government school the tuition charged for admittance is tuition-free. Yes, it STINKS! What the government is doing is running a price-fixed cartel that puts private schools at a great disadvantage. If a private industry were to attempt this the CEOs would soon be in prison. But...Down on the “Animal Farm” government school bureaucrats live in the farmer's house. Private industry CEO are sentenced to prison.
If conservatives are going to have any hope of shutting down the government school system, then when the parent shows up at the conservative school, the price charged will need to be tuition-free, because that is the price charged to the parent.
As for tuition-free private schools, we have an important historical model: The Catholic Schools. Millions of Catholics are still alive who enjoyed ( and are very grateful for) a **tuition-free** PRIVATE education. And...If you will Google the words “ Wichita, Kansas, Catholic schools”, you will see we have a MODERN example of tuition-free schools TODAY!
I personally believe that if government had not put its great big hairy foot smack dab in the middle of the education market in the mid-1800s to early 1900s, that today we would have had tuition-free private K-12 schooling for all of our nation's children.
Americans are very very generous and committed to education. Proof is that we have colleges and universities today with endowments in the BILLIONS upon BILLIONS! If government had stayed out of K-12 education, we would have seen similar charitable funding of private K-12 schooling.
We also see ( from our experience with tuition-free Catholic schools) that education that is received through charity engenders a spirit of **gratitude** and a willingness to be charitable to others as well. Government on the other hand breeds feelings of entitlement.
As for”TANSTAAFL!!”, if it is meant to be an insult, sorry its sting in lost on me, since I haven't the foggiest notion as to what it means.
By the way...do you profit directly or indirectly from the government schools? Is this why you are attacking my post? ( Just wondering.) If you are a government school defender, I do NOT NOT NOT post for your benefit. I post for the benefit of conservatives with open minds. Thank you for another opportunity to do that.
You, on the other hand, have presented no even one point to refute anything that I have posted.
"When a parent shows up their socialist-funded, single payer, Prussian-model, prison-like, government school the tuition charged for admittance is tuition-free".
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When I arrived at a public school with my kids, I had already paid their tuition (plus that of free-loaders) through my taxes. Their schooling was pre-paid (by me), not "tuition free".
If you are talking about the 'freeloaders' riding free on my taxes, then we are in agreement...
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What does your (redundant) "the tuition charged for admittance is tuition-free" mean?
There. You have been 'educated'... '-)
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FWIW, while I was composing my previous comment, my fifth-grade granddaughter's (public school) teacher called to advise us that she (granddaughter) had scored 100% on math and 98% on reading on her TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) tests -- which, of course, earned her a "Commended" rating in both categories.