Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

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Originally Posted by Beestie

The idea that taxpayers should foot the bill to send a child to a private school because the state has failed to provide an adequate public education to that child is the very pinnacle of stupidity.

But the taxpayer is already footing the bill one way or the other; the money sending the ambitious inner-city kid to private school is in theory being directly taken away from the crappy public school. It's your money, if you had a choice wouldn't you buy the better product?

Edit to add:

Originally Posted by Beestie

The federal government needs to exit stage left and leave educating our most precious national resource, our children, to the state and local level. That's the first step towards closing the gap between public and private schools and making the entire question (the original question) moot.

I'm totally with you here.