The Cellar - View Single Post - Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

piercehawkeye45 · 01-11-2007, 01:24 PM

Are you talking about how taxpayers will pay kids (usually inner city) to go to private schools because their school is inadequate for them?
Or that the state funds private schools?

The state funding private schools is a big no no. That is why we have private schools as an alternative. If someone doesn't want there kids to go to public school, they should pay for their kids by themselves.

On the other spectrum we get inner city kids with a lot of potential that want to get out of the inner city so they have a better chance of success later in life. Each child gets a certain amount of tax dollars that fund them going to public school so the issue is should the government pay that amount to private schools so the kid can go there instead? This issue I'm pretty much 50/50 on but until we get better education in the inner city, I will have to go with letting the kid go to private school but you have to limit the number of kids.

01-11-2007, 01:24 PM	#2
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	Are you talking about how taxpayers will pay kids (usually inner city) to go to private schools because their school is inadequate for them? Or that the state funds private schools? The state funding private schools is a big no no. That is why we have private schools as an alternative. If someone doesn't want there kids to go to public school, they should pay for their kids by themselves. On the other spectrum we get inner city kids with a lot of potential that want to get out of the inner city so they have a better chance of success later in life. Each child gets a certain amount of tax dollars that fund them going to public school so the issue is should the government pay that amount to private schools so the kid can go there instead? This issue I'm pretty much 50/50 on but until we get better education in the inner city, I will have to go with letting the kid go to private school but you have to limit the number of kids.