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To: Lane3 who wrote (16273)7/1/2002 10:48:40 AM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Perhaps you would comment on a more basic question--why should education be fully funded by the taxpayer rather than some combination of taxpayer and parent? And what proportion of a child's education bill do you think would end up being paid by the parents in an environment where the voucher system was fully implemented?

I think the essence of universally available and required public education is that some basic level of education should be fully funded by the taxpayer (i.e., provided by the state). This recognizes that there are many children whose parents cannot (or will not) fund the education for them, and without the education their ability to realize much of their potential is nonexistent.

However, it is an essential part of freedom that parents are allowed the discretion to spend money on things that are important to them. In our house that is education. We have great schools, but..... we enroll our kids in supplemental programs that teach them more things, we buy them workbooks, we spend time teaching them things before the schools get around to it. If you tell me I can't spend that money or that time, you have taken away my freedom (and I will find a way to do it anyway).

So I think the answer is that some level of education ought to be taxpayer funded (though not necessarily government-distributed), but parents should always remain free to supplement that as they are able and deem it appropriate.
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