> If you oppose top-down meddling in public education then I assume you support vouchers? That's about as bottom-up as things get. Bad assumption. That's a fun

> If you oppose top-down meddling in public education then I assume you support vouchers? That's about as bottom-up as things get. Bad assumption. That's a fundamental POV difference between "I pay taxes to fund the public education system" and "I pay taxes to pay for kids to go to some school". The notion that those tax dollars belong to the parents and not specifically the public school system depends on which of those you think is, or should be, the case. For my part, if the money's not exclusively funding the public school system, I don't want to pay any taxes toward schools. Talk about bottom up! [EDIT] FWIW I'm actually for allowing districts to experiment with this, because I doubt mine would do it and I think the results would be hilarious, but would prefer not to have to move to another state to avoid it, so would rather the red parts of my state not impose it on my district.