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To: Rob Lyman who wrote (114)	6/29/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 13056

That's a tougher question, and one that may receive several different responses. I, for one, see NO benefit in the current public school system. However, I recognize the benefit of adequate access to education. As such, I am a proponent of maintaining the public school system with major systemic changes. First and foremost, allowing for school choice. Vouchers, if you will, as an alternative. Let kids go to private schools if good ones are available. Secondly, changes to promote merit pay and devolve tenure. Tenure is pure crap. How to prevent the next thing...I don't know. A teacher was dismissed recently for leading a class prayer. Just dismissed. However, several teachers here in NYC are known sex offenders and pedophiles and were allowed to continue teaching...sometimes just having the district they were in switched. I find that frightening, that prayer is more dangerous than other types of offenses. I would also make school sports self-supporting. No gov't subsidies for sports teams. Phys ed is important, but it shouldn't receive largesse to the degree it currently does. Make donations to schools (public or private) a income deduction (that may be the case already - I don't know). Support of education is the bedrock of future individual advancement. Those are most of my major gripes... Most Libertarians would probably want the public school system abolished. I prefer baby steps to achieve that goal. Some communities will need time to create alternative arrangements to a public school system....

To: Rob Lyman who wrote (114)	6/29/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: Turboe	Respond to of 13056

From lp.org EDUCATION We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended. We call for the repeal of the guarantees of tax-funded, government-provided education, which are found in most state constitutions. As an interim measure to encourage the growth of private schools and variety in education, including home schooling, we support tax credits for tuition and other expenditures related to an individual's education. We likewise favor tax credits for child care and oppose nationalization of the child-care industry. We oppose denial of tax-exempt status to schools because of those schools' private policies on hiring, admissions, and student deportment. We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether for profit or non-profit. We condemn compulsory education laws, which spawn prison-like schools with many of the problems associated with prisons, and we call for an immediate repeal of such laws. Until government involvement in education is ended, we support elimination, within the governmental school system, of forced busing and corporal punishment. We further support immediate reduction of tax support for schools, and removal of the burden of school taxes from those not responsible for the education of children. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------