Everyone pays taxes that go to schools whether they have children or
not.

My thoughts are that you should get a vocher if you have children and
do not send them to public school. I don't care if you home school
them or send them to private school. If you have kids and are not
tsending them to the public schools, you are saving the government
money. Now I don't advocate having the vochers for as much as it
costs to have a kid in school. Some MBA could figure out the optimum
amount so that the public schools save the most money. So it might be
40% of the cost of having a kid go to public school.

Or another approach would be the one Alaska takes. They have a home
school education department. They help with things as books, and also
arrange for extra things as organizing home school plays and music
groups. So the kids develop social skills too. Of course that is
only for home schools, not private schools.

I like to think my plan would be a win for almost everyone. The
public schools would end up with more money per child, the parents
with more choice and more money if they were going to home school or
send their kid to private school.
The losers are the teachers union, and the school administrators.


Dan


jim rozen wrote in message

Seems like the folks who push home schooling also invariably
push vouchers. I would take the homeschool types a great
deal more seriously if they said, 'look, we're more than
happy to contribute to the public education, but we feel
like we want to do better for our kids ourselves.'

But when homeschoolers immediately jump on the voucher
bandwagon then it spoils the effect - basically it seems
like all they want to do is shirk paying taxes. And
if everyone is allowed to opt-out of school taxes, then
we get back to your original comment: in that case,
everyone *will* be required to home-school.

Jim

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