morph wrote:um cuz im beating kyle out of the posts lol and i can and do have something to say bout this
ok much as i hate to do this but jay has it more right... if he is paying for private school he is also paying for public, taxes are going to public, no taxes go to private schools, because private schools are made to have income by what they are being paid... and so therefore the government dosnt give them money, and they are not told or inforced by the government to follow public guidelines that the public schools are doing... trust me my cousins are going to private schools all their lives (personally i think they are babied way to much by parents and private school that when they get into the real life they will be shocked all to hell)
so ya...
Its called altruism... just because you arent using the services doesnt mean you shouldn't have to pay for them... I'm not using the war in Iraq but the government still takes money out of my paycheck to pay off the bombs... I'm not using the roads(no liscense)... I still get money taken out of my paycheck to pay for them.. Just because you aren't using the public schools doesnt mean your money shouldnt go for them...hell its not even altruism.. Its common sense.. You still have the free will to go send your kids to public school thats not different however, you dont have the free will to just not pay your taxes because those are essential for government functions one of which being public school....just becasue you are rich enough to send your kids to private school.....
Not to mention in republican states such as Idaho the school underfunding Is very very very prevalent... My parents are teachers at schools here in Idaho and besides being vastly underpaid and both of them having to work just to pay the bills they are also watching teachers/janitors/other workers being fired off like crazy because no one is wanting to fund the schools..... on top of that now the republicans are trying to introduce school vouchers which allow mostly the rich(who afford private) to decide that they dont want to pay their taxes benefitting public school... sorry to tell you but paying those taxes is an american duty and if you can have your taxes going towards private school then i should be able to choose where mine go to...unlike the war, roads, and the porkbarrell shit they have their hands in...