If some parents want their children educated by private or religious institutions, they should have to pay for it. Home school requires oversight but is worthy of public funding. Just the ability to enter children into alternative programs requires a certain amount of wealth.
Transportation is expensive, if not a parent, then a relative or employee is required to drop off and pick up an enrolled child, and not available to most families.
Public education is funded by all of us and should
be spent equally as a society. If that isn’t good enough, we are all free to pay for any school, any tutor, any institution of learning we can afford for our kids.
If a religious or private institution is using my tax dollars, I should have a say as to how it is spent. I pay school taxes every year and my daughter is an adult. I don’t want that money being used as welfare for the rich.
Anyone can seek another route for their offspring and more power to you, but don’t use my money to do it.
America is all about anyone having the ability to rise. It shouldn’t be supplemented with our taxes.
— William Beltz
Anchorage
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