“How much money would we save if we did away with public schools entirely?”
LoL a lot! Of course that really depends upon exactly what each state plans on doing to replace em. The Biggest impediment to such creative thinking is the Federal Government’s Department of education’s various bureaucratic rules regarding the money they make us jump thou hoops to reclaim.
One of the main reasons we need that useless and destructive department of the Federal government competently abolished.
I agree we should do away with public schools and instead I think New Mexico should go to a fully voucher system. All existing Public school infrastructure and personnel can either be maintained by the county or local government as locally owned corporations or be sold off to private organizations willing to run and administrate them as a private school.
Just one stipulation thou, no school shall be eledgable to redeem the voucher unless it accepts all students.
Sounds like a good plan. I think we should also make it much easier for parents to homeschool.