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sethnintendo on 02 August 2017
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teamsilent13 said:
sethnintendo said:

I just don't want to see tax payer dollars go to private religious schools.  Fact is a lot of private schools are religious based.

http://www.capenet.org/facts.html

"There are 33,619 private schools in the United States, serving 5.4 million PK-12 students. Private schools account for 25 percent of the nation's schools and enroll 10 percent of all PK-12 students.

Most private school students (79 percent) attend religiously-affiliated schools (see table 2 of the PSS Report). And most private schools are small: 87 percent have fewer than 300 students (see table 1 of the PSS Report)."

 

I believe in seperation of church and state.  If you want to pay more money to send your kid to some religious private school then do it but don't do it on the back of tax payers money.  I don't even want to see a dime go to private schools.  They either can maintain themselves or they can go out of business.  Free market right?

That would not be a free market. That would be a socialist or crony keynsian market where the government sponsored school system gets the advantage over the religious and/or private schools. A free market would have extreemely low taxes or none at all into the school system and the ability to choose where to put your money into any school system you want. America already pays an insane amount into the public school system and it's a failure. I wish I grew up in an area with a good charter school. I would have been a lot better off honestly. I was in my public school's gifted program, too which was literally a liberal indoctrination clinic. It would have been better to keep the old way of just moving me ahead a grade or two.

Like it or not public schools exist off tax payer money.  Private schools may have a disadvantage in funding regard but they will always have their followers of their beliefs to attempt to prop their school up. Why should I fund a religious school with my tax payer money?

Oh and not all school districts are failures in USA.  I live in a school district that is regarded pretty highly.  Sure there are a few problem schools in the district but most are top performers.