Maggie's Farm

"I believe that the $ should follow the kid to wherever the family wants."

So you agree with O'Rourke, then? He says:

"Close all the public schools. Send the kids home. Fire the teachers. Sell the buildings. Raze the U.S. Department of Education, leaving not one brick standing upon another and plow the land where it stood with salt."

It was only a couple of decades ago that the GOP had this exact policy. Now only gadflies like O'Rourke can be heard saying this.

John Adams was horribly wrong. Public Education serves no purpose, save untoward and malign ends. O'Rourke doesn't even inveigh against what the poor buggers are taught in the benighted gubmint schools. Read John Taylor Gatto, folks.

My two kids never darkened the door of gubmint schools from Kindergarten to entering University, yet I was forced to sell my house at a loss by staggering property taxes, mostly to "educate" other people's kids.

We homeschoolers don't look for handouts or vouchers.

We abhor and avoid them! Once the gubmint gives a homeschooler a voucher, it will not be long before we are met at our doorsteps by helpful officials explaining that the state now has a vested interest in insuring that kids learning at this address have all the advantages of what the latest whims of the educrats are, from fisting to the murderous policies of America overseas.

You can force me to take a voucher when you stuff in my cold dead hands.

Until then, stuff it somewhere else.

The solution is to not tax us in the first place, to not provide the "service" at all. To leave the issue of resources for schooling to parents, families, foundations and individual students.

Poor but not unlettered.

His degree was summa cum laude by the way.

A modest proposal:

a) Let's have the gubmint set up gas stations throughout the country and provide "free" gas to drivers, funded by massive new taxes. Just go to Gubmint Gas to fill up.

Or if you prefer to shop at BP or Sunoco or whatever you can get a voucher to give them at the point of purchase.

Lets have the $ follow the drivers!

b) Replace gas with food, clothes etc, and go back to step (a).