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teamsilent13 on 02 August 2017
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sethnintendo said:
teamsilent13 said:

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.

I believe Thomas Jefferson wanted to completely decentralize the school system. Here is my source: https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/excursions/thomas-jefferson-public-education-part-1

Off topic, but I am sick of seperation of church and state being meant that our founders were anti religious to the modern liberal standards. We only removed Bible reading in schools in the 1950s or 60s which made things more secular than it ever was before. I am not saying to bring it back, but it appears even the non-religious Jefferson supported it: http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/arg6.htm. Old America wasn't super atheist or anything. Jefferson was probably only 1 of 3 out of 56 that signed the constitution that wasn't Chrisitan. Although he did write it.

I would prefer to lower taxes across the board...far more than the Bush tax cuts. I do not believe the public school system is as important as the public library which cost our taxes far less. So for me, I would love to see a more diverse thought education system with less emphasis on public schooling.