Why should we have to pay for .....y public schools that turn out vermin loving protesters who can't read or speak proper english? And I'm talking about the ......... students who were born here. IDC about these ...... kids. Why are we in the hook to pay for them?
mercedes
Why should we pay for public schools that turn out people like you?
wowser
Yeah who needs education
Entropy
Universal education is worth having government pay for. There are societal benefits (Milton Friedman called them 'neighborhood effects') that are quite large. So you benefit from having a more educated populace even if you don't have kids yourself. Education level correlates strongly with economic prosperity, reduced crime, better life expectancy and practically every other measure of societal good you want to name.
But it's even deeper than that. A democracy thrives on an informed electorate and education helps with that. Democracies that fail often struggle with the problem of uneducated voters.
Now, the question you SHOULD be asking, but didn't, is "While govt paying for universal education is a good thing, why should government be the SUPPLIER of that education?" THAT would be a more useful topic. Many studies show that private schooling has done better even with the same exact students that failed in public schools. Charter schools, vouchers, and scholarship tax credit programs all outperform public schools even when they get the same students. And they achieve these superior results despite being paid LESS per pupil than public schools.
wondering
as long as you have kids in the school system I agree with paying tax money , BUT once your kids are thru school that tax needs to be removed from your tax bill
Anonymous
the saying goes “stay in school” but it really should be “pay attention in school”
those who did the latter will know the answer to your question