Ookkay. Maybe you have a point in some of that. However, how about single parents? How are some of them supposed to afford that? There are many single parents that are hard working. How are they supposed to afford it? If they stay home, (to homeschool)how do they support their families? Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to see people be able to stay home to homeschool, or put kids in private school. But not every one can do it.
If they stay home to homeschool, how do they support themselves and their families? They would have to get help from somewhere. If they get it from the government, some people would crab and say they need to get to work, and stop living off the taxpayers. If they go out to work, who homeschools the kids? How do they afford private schools if they don’t work? I see your point about families with 2 parents in the house, but what about the ones with only one parent?
I’d like to see a world where most people have a marriage partner in the house, or two adults. However, in reality, there are several in a position where they are raising children almost alone. Do you have any practical suggestions for these families? Or are you saying that everyone should just do what you think they should do? A one-size-fits-all kind of thing? People have things happen that are not forseen. Parents die, parents leave, parents get sick. Then the other parents get left alone. What do they do about their kids education? Can you tell me?
However,,,if every person, who could privately or home school their children, did do this, and got off the government school welfare teat, then charity and scholarships could take care of the rest.
By the way, there are many single parents that can afford to use private schools. If they were able to afford babysitting when their children were pre-schoolers, then they can afford the cost of tuition in most church schools. They cost of babysitting is about the same as babysitting in my state.
And,,,Many single parents homeschool while holding down full-time jobs. Homeschooling is very very efficient in terms of time. My homeschooling children rarely spent more than 2 hours a day in formal instruction. The children of single parents homeschool before and after work and on the weekends. Many have made arrangements with homeschool cooperatives.
However,,,In my county there are no private schools. None!
Why?
Answer: Government schools are price-fixed monopoly that is giving away a service for free. This discourages the development of private schools that must charge a fee to cover costs.
Our county has plenty of other services that are not free. We have 2 large supermarkets. A super-Wall Mart is coming within the years. We have more than enough physicians, too many dentists, two hardware stores, several banks, more than one dry cleaner, more than one furniture store, several clothing stores,,etc.
We have a selection of services because government is not giving these products away for free. If the government did start giving away free food, furniture, dry cleaning, clothing, it wouldn’t be long before middle class families couldn’t live without the government food, clothing, housing, and dry cleaning.