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From the Stanford/NYT article quoted in the article: (spelling corrected)Free? Hmmm. Then what's this thing on my property taxes labeled "School system," the amount of which is the largest dollar item on the tax bill?
1 posted on 08/29/2021 3:23:33 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Forced masking and “vaccination” are the final straws.


2 posted on 08/29/2021 3:26:33 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: upchuck
"Despite the fact that public education is free"

WTF!

Flush your headgear out PJmedia! Yes it's free for 10k a year in perpetual never ending and always increasing property taxes. We have totally forfeited the concept of private property rights primarily to fund this "free" public school system.

This needs to end ASAP. All education should be private with zero government involvement. If you don't have kids you should not be paying for schools. When your kids are done with school you should not be paying for schools.

3 posted on 08/29/2021 3:30:04 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: upchuck

” public education is free “

That’s like the reporter mentioning to Jen Psaki that the government flights from Afghanistan are free — and Psaki not telling her that they’re not free at all.


4 posted on 08/29/2021 3:32:25 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: upchuck

It is time for separation of school and state.


7 posted on 08/29/2021 3:37:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: metmom

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8 posted on 08/29/2021 3:40:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: upchuck; All

Public education is Free? Nothing in the universe is “free.” Someone always pays… whether it be in dollars or sweat.


15 posted on 08/29/2021 3:53:10 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: upchuck

The sports obsession costs a bunch too. The expensive sports related facilities and equipment, INSURANCE, coaching pay, Yes there are boosters that help fund it, but it’s all for maybe a fourth of the kids that want to play a sport. The parents become so sports obsessed it’s ridiculous, “Gotta get that college scholarship.”

There was a guy at my high school that was a natural athlete, but was satisfied just playing in P.E., and at the park. The coaches were bummed that he wouldn’t play interscholastic. His reason: he just couldn’t see why it was such a big deal to people.


23 posted on 08/29/2021 4:37:56 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: upchuck

Home schooling parents should all reduce their property tax payments a like amount of the school assessment. Then listen to them howl.


24 posted on 08/29/2021 4:51:37 PM PDT by Rowdyone
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To: upchuck
"Despite the fact that public education is free"

Well how is it paid for? I don't know but it's free.
25 posted on 08/29/2021 4:57:23 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: upchuck

Jimmy Carter’s WORST of his terrible policies. Time to abolish the Department of Education as close to immediately as possible.

America survived virtually all of his rotten policies except the DOE.


27 posted on 08/29/2021 5:10:44 PM PDT by Maceman (People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
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To: upchuck
Despite the fact that public education is free

Wrong. The U.S. has one of the most expensive education systems in the world....funded by taxpayers.

The author's statement is symbolic of today's state of education: void of critical thinking, reason, logic, and ethics.

35 posted on 08/29/2021 9:09:04 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: upchuck

Walk into a public school and ask one of the office employees a question requiring personal initiative and unprogrammed thought. Like telling jokes on a Borg ship.


36 posted on 08/29/2021 9:50:21 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: upchuck

And your tax line item for “schools” won’t go down because there aren’t many variable costs in education.


37 posted on 08/29/2021 11:28:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: upchuck

Then what’s this thing on my property taxes labeled “School system,” the amount of which is the largest dollar item on the tax bill?

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94% of my property tax.


40 posted on 08/30/2021 2:17:10 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: upchuck

Who writes stuff like this, eighth grade girls? Public schools aren’t ‘’free’’. You pay for them in taxes.


42 posted on 09/01/2021 8:06:50 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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