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> It isn't the parent's money! It’s as much theirs at it is any other citizen’s. > entitled parents siphoning from the system Very loaded choice of words. P
by davemp 3y ago
> It isn't the parent's money!
It’s as much theirs at it is any other citizen’s.
> entitled parents siphoning from the system
Very loaded choice of words.
Parents who feel entitled to what? A quality education for their children?
> If you want to make changes, fix the rules under which schools operate and allow disruptive kids to be expelled.
Foisting the responsibility on individual parents to push huge political changes through seems entirely unreasonable.
- jgeada 3y agoBut it is much more everyone else's than theirs. Everyone, individuals and businesses, pays into the pot, whether they have kids in the school or not. Individual parent's taxes are a minority fraction of the actual cost of running the education system. Thus "siphoning": common public moneys being used to pay individual interests. If you want a private education for your kids, go right ahead and pay for it, don't ask the rest of us to subsidize you. And yes, we all want a quality education for all children. Make schools better for everyone, not just the entitled or well connected.
- mhb 3y agoCompetition is a way to make things higher quality. School choice is competition.