re: #55 Rightwingconspirator

Home schooling. Vouchers. Charters.

What’s the common denominator here? It’s that some parents don’t want their kids mixing with “those people.” Parents of means don’t want to pay enough taxes for all the schools to be able to do a good education for all the kids.

Home schooling requires the family have enough money to have a parent in the home all day every day. Vouchers cover 3/4 of the cost of a private school, such an unfortunate coincidence that excludes the kids whose parents can’t cover the other 1/4 out of pocket. Charters take only the kids whose parents can volunteer x number of hours, or donate x number of books, nobody with any learning disabilities or physical challenges or their family can’t feed them enough and dress them warmly and their neighborhood has sirens going off all night so they don’t get enough rest.

It’s all about short-term thinking vs long-term thinking, and it’s government’s responsibility to think long. People who care only about their own family’s short-term best interest and never mind if 20 years from now half a generation is going to be adults with no skills… are just going to have to suck it up and deal with the cost of giving a damn about “those people’s” kids too.