We have public education, but we never merged private education in with public education like they did in Europe. The Ivy League here are all private, and even a lot of Leftist shitholes like Oberlin College are private.
Homeschooling is an extension of private education, and the right are making gains in that area which haven't existed for a long time.
I’ve seen homeschooling numbers shooting up which is good but it does beg the question why should you pay into the public school system if you took your kids out?
The same argument applies to pretty much any childless homeowner (including gay couples and old people, neither of which are gonna breed) and the argument never flies because they make it a "good for the species" argument that everyone pays into (a/the) public school system via property tax.
I don't know, I think there's some merit to the notion that an educated populace has benefits for everyone. Basically by investing in the development of kids(even if you don't have any yourself) you're setting the populace up so that the up and coming generation will be capable enough to keep everything running smoothly which will benefit you. Little Timmy down the street grows up to be the engineer who knows how to keep the electric grid properly balanced and operational so you don't end up living in the dark ages. That's the theory on paper anyway, even if that's not what the educational system is in actuality.
Try? Yes.
Succeed? No.
We have public education, but we never merged private education in with public education like they did in Europe. The Ivy League here are all private, and even a lot of Leftist shitholes like Oberlin College are private.
Homeschooling is an extension of private education, and the right are making gains in that area which haven't existed for a long time.
I’ve seen homeschooling numbers shooting up which is good but it does beg the question why should you pay into the public school system if you took your kids out?
That is the correct question.
The same argument applies to pretty much any childless homeowner (including gay couples and old people, neither of which are gonna breed) and the argument never flies because they make it a "good for the species" argument that everyone pays into (a/the) public school system via property tax.
You are right though. They get hostile if you bring that up
Teachers' Unions especially. They know where the cash comes from.
It's why vouchers were so vociferously attacked.
I don't know, I think there's some merit to the notion that an educated populace has benefits for everyone. Basically by investing in the development of kids(even if you don't have any yourself) you're setting the populace up so that the up and coming generation will be capable enough to keep everything running smoothly which will benefit you. Little Timmy down the street grows up to be the engineer who knows how to keep the electric grid properly balanced and operational so you don't end up living in the dark ages. That's the theory on paper anyway, even if that's not what the educational system is in actuality.
Once you start letting people opt out of taxes they don't use, then welfare and its similar cousins will drop to pennies as well.
Which will then be called racism by the whites to steal money from the blacks again.