3 ms·

What's wrong with that? if my kid doesn't go to public school, i should be able to take my contribution to that and use it for what i moved him to (charter scho

What's wrong with that? if my kid doesn't go to public school, i should be able to take my contribution to that and use it for what i moved him to (charter school or homeschool) etc.

mrguyorama 3y ago
No that's like antithetical to the entire concept of taxes in general and their use for all. Government services are not a market and should not be. We pay for everyone's schooling because educated people make a better democracy. If you decide the public system isn't for you, why should you have any entitlement to not continue to pay for everyone else's children like everyone else?
- readthenotes1 3y ago
  The US tax provided school system doesn't seem to do a great job at educating. Why should we support a broken system?
  - em-bee 3y ago
    because simply stopping to support it and running off to do your own thing is going to make it worse. what is needed is more funding and a push for reform.
    - readthenotes1 3y ago
      Chicago and Baltimore spend tons of money for their school system with poor outcomes. Just supplying more money to a system almost never fixes anything about a broken system. A few years ago the Chicago teachers Union leader pointed out that part of the trouble with trying to teach students is that they do not have a secure home life. You're not going to fix that by giving more money to school administrators.
      - em-bee 3y ago
        Just supplying more money to a system almost never fixes anything about a broken system. of course, hence the need to also push for reform the trouble with trying to teach students is that they do not have a secure home life i am aware of that, and i realize that more needs to be done than to just improve schools. but this subthread was about taking money away from schools because they are not good enough. not about students struggling because they have a bad home. those are related but different issues.
- Racing0461 3y ago
  I don't mind paying for "public school" because its pretty much a "prison lite" system for "youths" which keeps them under close eye instead of running around in society untethered. But for the people that actually want their kids to exist in a learning environment, they should have an option instead of being forced to send their kids to their locally assigned public school.
  - giraffe_lady 3y ago
    Delightful!
  - larkost 3y ago
    You have all the options you can afford. But... 1. You should not have the option of skipping out on the taxes you pay for the general school system. So no rebates. 2. Your fellow taxpayers should not have to subsidize your decisions in your child's education. So no vouchers. If that means that you don't have the means to send your child to your chosen school... then that is capitalism.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
persponsibility 3y ago
[flagged]

What's wrong with that? if my kid doesn't go to public school, i should be able to take my contribution to that and use it for what i moved him to (charter school or homeschool) etc.

mrguyorama 3y ago

No that's like antithetical to the entire concept of taxes in general and their use for all. Government services are not a market and should not be. We pay for everyone's schooling because educated people make a better democracy. If you decide the public system isn't for you, why should you have any entitlement to not continue to pay for everyone else's children like everyone else?

readthenotes1 3y ago
The US tax provided school system doesn't seem to do a great job at educating. Why should we support a broken system?
- em-bee 3y ago
  because simply stopping to support it and running off to do your own thing is going to make it worse. what is needed is more funding and a push for reform.
  - readthenotes1 3y ago
    Chicago and Baltimore spend tons of money for their school system with poor outcomes. Just supplying more money to a system almost never fixes anything about a broken system. A few years ago the Chicago teachers Union leader pointed out that part of the trouble with trying to teach students is that they do not have a secure home life. You're not going to fix that by giving more money to school administrators.
    - em-bee 3y ago
      Just supplying more money to a system almost never fixes anything about a broken system. of course, hence the need to also push for reform the trouble with trying to teach students is that they do not have a secure home life i am aware of that, and i realize that more needs to be done than to just improve schools. but this subthread was about taking money away from schools because they are not good enough. not about students struggling because they have a bad home. those are related but different issues.
Racing0461 3y ago
I don't mind paying for "public school" because its pretty much a "prison lite" system for "youths" which keeps them under close eye instead of running around in society untethered. But for the people that actually want their kids to exist in a learning environment, they should have an option instead of being forced to send their kids to their locally assigned public school.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago
  Delightful!
- larkost 3y ago
  You have all the options you can afford. But... 1. You should not have the option of skipping out on the taxes you pay for the general school system. So no rebates. 2. Your fellow taxpayers should not have to subsidize your decisions in your child's education. So no vouchers. If that means that you don't have the means to send your child to your chosen school... then that is capitalism.
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]

persponsibility 3y ago

[flagged]