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(11-12-2015 12:26 AM)Spyder Wrote:  Those aren't the only options. We had a voucher program in Florida...installed by JEB...that the left hated. Why? Because it let parents CHOOSE who educated their kids. They weren't relegated to settling for the shitty neighborhood schools that they were zoned for...or rolling the dice for the magnet/fundamental school lottery...or stuck paying a college tuition for private schooling. They could get a "refund" of sorts of their tax dollars to send their kids to whatever school they wanted.

Put lightly, very few people are pleased with public schools...even less are happy since Common Core has been accepted as the curriculum. The fucking shit is broken, yet we still continue to pour our tax dollars into it...without the choice to opt out.

Call it what you want, but I call it another way that Gov't fucks up anything that it touches.

I agree that the government is terrible and inefficient at education and virtually everything else. I'm for vouchers and charter schools ect. The question is whether or not the government should tax people to pay to educate kids or if everyone should just figure out how to educate their kids on their own.

I feel confident that the very vast majority of social conservatives would agree that education/police/fire fighters/military are all social programs worth having but that they need to be improved.

Whether the teachers should be retiring in their 50s with $60K+ year pensions for life isn't debatable to me - especially teachers who can barely speak english. And that is the one issue that unions care about above all else and they have bought off all our pols. Disgraceful.