[Tax-chick]

No, I would not. I support a system funded by private tuition (for those who can afford it) and private charity, for those who cannot. I realize this is a "fringe" position, and improbable of appearance ...but it was, in fact, the system we had in the United States until the Prussian system of uniform government-controlled education was imposed in the 19th century.

[bvw]

I support an earlier position too -- that localities be required to ensure that all children of that locality receive a minimum educattion, and that they have the power to tax to acheive that goal. Many, if not all or most, States include that in their State Constitutions.

I've seen the result of what you'd suggest in Mexico. In Mexico their are no truant officers, kids on the street don't go to school, and we all see the result. No surer way to end a third world fascist kleptocracy.

[bvw]

"To end up as a third world"