>>Since I care about those less fortunate, I am a huge advocate of 100% school choice by parents or guardians to place their kids in whatever accredited school they want with the ability for the equivalent tax dollars to follow that child. The amount of tax dollars needed to send a child to a competitive school in almost all cases is less than the amount of funding provided per child in public schools. In the long run, the costs would go down and most kids learning would increase.
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>I agree. Don't forget that the money rolls over about seven times in the community either way, which is where the biggest economic empact comes from. The greatest opposition comes from the NEA and its vested interest in the status quo. I was an NEA member for 9 or my 10 years as a public hs teacher. The ninth year was an eye-opener. Long story...
>but the bottom line is that the NEA doesn't give a flip about the education of your children as much as they want the political and philosophical attitudes of your children to be molded not by you, but by them.
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That is a major hitting of the nail on the head!