re: #163 ~Fianna

My problem with that is that you definitely will have some “sins of the fathers” issues. Why should we penalize a kid because their parents won’t or can’t pay? How much do we all lose, as business owners or managers, as customers and as a society, if we raise large numbers of nitwits and turn them loose on the rest of us when they hit 18?

The world will always need burger flippers and valet parking attendents. Why should the taxpayers foot the bill (to the tune of about 6K per kid per year) for 4 years for some kid who
A) doesn’t want to be in school
B) while there, disrupts those that DO want to be in school

I’m talking High School level, not elementary as long as the elementary curricuulum is reading, writing and ‘rithmatic, not how to put a condom on a banana.
Secondary ed could (shoudl) be privately funded (most of my property tax goes to public schools). I send my 15 year old to a private school. Why can’t I have my tax money to spend there?