“Parents educated their children because it was their responsibility.”
That might be true, but not many parents cheated of money a school in Pennsylvania - $100,000 - between 2001 and 2004 for your childen’s homeschool programs, while living with the family in Virginia, Senator Santorum.
You NEVER reimbursed that money to the school, Senator. Time to notice the beam in your eye first.
Santorum didn’t seem to be against government waste when it came to his family.
During his years in the Senate (2001-2004), Santorum raised his family in northern Virginia and rarely if ever seemed to use the small house that he claimed as his legal residence, in a blue-collar Pittsburgh suburb called Penn Hills.
So Pennsylvania voters were shocked when they found out the Penn Hills School District had paid out $38,000 a year for the home cyber-schooling of five of Santorum’s kids, hundreds of miles away in a different state.
The cash-strapped district was unsuccessful in its efforts to get any of its money back from Santorum.
That was one of the reasons the Pennsylvania voters turned against him. He lost his reelection 41% to 59%, the most severe beating taken by an incumbent Senator in 2006.