As I see it, using my local school district for the example, if every child in public school puts $10000 into the system, and removing them takes it out, someone's not skimming that money anymore. I know for a fact that the main objection to homeschooling here is the money they don't get for that student. They get it from state and federal sources, and they don't spend it all on the student. Not even close.
Now if the bloodsuckers in other areas are like ours here, they will see to it that taxes are raised to fill those pockets. I admit that is very cynical, but we are talking about bureaucrats.
By the way, here in PA there are charter schools and cyber schools that derive money from the govt, ie taxpayers, and a lot more of them would arise as homeschooling became more popular. Homeschool parents here generally don't favor the charters because they are really just another govt intrusion in sheep's clothing. If public schools suffered a perceptible drop in swag (govt funds to be skimmed), govt would invent Homeschool Commissions, Truancy Tribunals, Alternate Schooling Cooperatives, Student Health Councils, etc., and place them in every district.
"Pretty soon you're talking real money."
By the way, I grew up in the Kensington area of Philadelphia. I attended St. Joan of Arc.
The tuition at St. Joan of Arc for the 2002/2003 year was $2,383 a year. They closed soon after, due to declining enrollment. ( Probably due to competition from the free charters.)
$2,383 a year is **less** than the cost of babysitting.
In my current state there isn’t the Catholic school tradition, and private schooling on average is somewhat more. (Approximately $4,000/year for elementary school).
“...If public schools suffered a perceptible drop in swag (govt funds to be skimmed), govt would invent Homeschool Commissions, Truancy Tribunals, Alternate Schooling Cooperatives, Student Health Councils, etc., and place them in every district...”
That would constitute fascism. I ask the question all are timid to raise: Does force against a government that would abuse its powers so grossly to compromise the morals of our children constitute an act of treason, or an obligation of Constitutional duty?
Government bodies of divers stripe swiftly move to redefine the Second Amendment through activist court fiat and legislative tyranny. They know... and they are terrified. The prospect that men of decency, if there be such long suffering individuals left standing this day, may rise up against the propagators of the New World Order and smite them where they gather to plan our demise, is keenly on their minds.
I hope those whom love this country are stocking arms, ammo, food and water, because the time is fast approaching, and perhaps already here, when we need recourse to the FINAL ‘check and balance’ on government power.
Please do not lecture of our recourse through the political process... That ‘check and balance’ was destroyed and made irrelevant long ago.