I want to do away with socialist schools all together. Return to a capitalist, free market, system.
My hope is that as these outrages continue, and Boomers start living on fixed incomes, parents will pull out of the socialist schools and not want to "pay twice" and the Boomers will not want to pay confiscatory taxes for a failed system they aren’t using any more.
I think the greed that kept Boomers on the dole will help kill the program when their lifestyle is no longer being subsidized.
"I want to do away with socialist schools all together. Return to a capitalist, free market, system."
I don't have a problem with taxpayer funding for education per se, at least in cases of significant poverty. I just don't think that paying for education on the one hand means that you also have to turn around and provide the service on the other.
I really do like the idea of a child tax credit for all kids in lieu of "free" tuition at a government school. If you want to put your kid into a government school, fine. But YOU would have to scratch the check to do so. It also conveniently avoids the Constitutional question with vouchers in that the Government is not directly paying the bill if you chose to put your child into say a parochial school.
People don't respect or value something they don't have to pay for directly.
That said, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
"I think the greed that kept Boomers on the dole will help kill the program when their lifestyle is no longer being subsidized."
You raise a very good point. Nothing seems to motivate like greed, and as these folks go into retirement, they aren't going to be willing to subsidize the existing system as much.