I would pay to educate my own kids. What you do with yours is your own business, as long as you're not abusing them. Parents do have a legal and moral obligatio

I would pay to educate my own kids. What you do with yours is your own business, as long as you're not abusing them. Parents do have a legal and moral obligation to provide some education to their children, and that's it. We have universal education. Why do some of these students still go on to adopt criminal lives at the risk of going to jail? With all the money that is spent on students? All this money that wasn't spent on students over a century ago? It's simply not true that the choice is between paying for other people's kids and paying to jail them. People have free will, and basic moral facts (such as "don't steal, don't kill, don't cheat") are discoverable without any formal education, much less the awful force-fed government school kids must attend today. (Your thinking certainly reflects the mainstream. It is no accident that these schools bear striking similarities to American prisons.) America was once the greatest country on earth when it was guided implicitly by the principle I have outlined above (late 19th century). Since then, things have gotten worse, and just about any honest person will admit this (although they might not agree with me as to the cause). Ultimately, avoiding collapse and starvation will take nothing less than the discovery and acceptance of this moral system.