Yes, the deduction for private K-12 school tuition is right. The parents are already paying property and state taxes for “public” schools they don’t send their kids to.
I’d be glad to offer an alternative to those that don’t like that idea.
How about we make 100% of all per-student federal, state and local money for K-12 education given as two vouchers a year to the parents, given three months before the start of each semester, and allowing the parents to hand over those vouchers to ANY school of their choice - public, private, secular or religious-based.
I’d be willing to claw back the tax deduction for private tuition if that was what we did with the public money.
My position is the public commitment to K-12 education must be for EDUCATION and not a commitment to protecting any education institution. To the “public” schools I say, “it’s not about helping you in particular, it’s about supporting the kids, wherever the parents think best”.
because schools only need money, pay for upgrades and such and buy things 3 months before the start of year. /s
schools should be supported locally and if people don’t like what’s going on move or work/vote, get involved to improve schools.
My Dad was the only income and not only did they pay tax toward public schools but they put 5 kids thru private school k-12. yes we went without more than 1 tv, lots of extras but he made it work.
Stop expecting govt to help you provide what you think you should. Do what you can to teach your own kids.
Sorry, but just more meddling where they shouldn’t even exist.
How ‘bout kill the Fed. DoEd, parents/guardians pay for the education of their own brood (as the service it is). Nobody spends $$$ better than the owner (quality, quantity and outcomes would all improve).
Everyone seems to love to shout “smaller govt! Constitution!” and, in the next breath, “But, I’m willing to/for...”. Never a clean-slate, just ‘how do we shoe-horn XYZ into the current system/process’ (existing garbage = garbage out).
Not just the parents pay for those public schools.
The parents are actually a small fraction of those who pay for public schools.
Asking nonparents to pay for schools twice—including particularly opulent private schools for the rich is just wrong.
Time to ERASE Tenure for all teachers & professors....Never to come back.
Bump! My ex-wife, who is a retired school teacher, advocated something like that 25 years ago.