First of all, I am going to clarify something for you. You don't have to have kids to have used the tax money that goes to education. We ALL used it on ourselves from grades K-12, unless we attended private school or were home-schooled. It's like social security taxes, but in reverse. Instead of getting the big pay back at the end of your life (after having paid taxes all your life), you get to pay off instead what you took in the beginning. We all received that education and now that we have it, we get to pay back the government and society by using that brain and those skills we were given to earn them money back so even more people can get an education. It's not unfair in the least, since they gave us basic knowledge skills that many of us wouldn't otherwise have known if public school hadn't been around as an option.
Skillet said:
Still- Parents should be able to responsible enough to financially support their children. Nobody else. And earlier someone said that schools were overfilled. This would make people who really don't want to go to school a chance to get out. They won't pay for something they don't want to go to, and some parents won't want to, either. Then they can go get a job, and get a taste of responsibility. Then the people that do want to be at school will pay to go.
You could serve those same purposes just by not making going to public school mandatory. Just because we all have the opportunity to go to public school doesn't mean any of us HAS to. We can always go to private or be home-schooled. It's up to us and it doesn't stop us. If public school wasn't mandatory then we could keep those bad kids that don't want to learn out of schools, so your option isn't the only other one exclusively out there.
And I disagree with you entirely about making children work. There are labor laws against children working for a reason. In fact, I suggest you reading David Copperfield to get a taste of what the world and life was like BEFORE there were any labor laws protecting people in the world. It was pretty awful.
We live in America. And America is the land of opportunity. Where we don't have stations in life we are born in (with some exceptions) and someone can be born into a poor station in life and still become President someday. Why? Because of things like public school. People get trapped in their stations more without it. I mean, just think about it. People who are born in a rich family will get to go to the top notch schools (because they will charge the most) and therefore move on to get top notch jobs and poor people will get to go to cheap, horrible schools (because it's all their parents can afford) and get horrible jobs because of it, that is if they DO get to go to school before they work. Because you know there would be some poor people out there who would start popping out babies so they can put all their kids to work and make extra money off of having a bunch of children that they can't provide for. And that would be so wrong to do to those children who had no say in what kind of situation they were going to be born in.
We have public education so that everyone lives a higher quality of life. So people don't get stuck in the low quality of life. So that they have the opportunity to be different.
The more people that are educated and intelligent in a country, the higher the quality that the average person lives. That's why it's so desirable for everyone to be educated. That's why politicians fight over this issue and debate it a lot. Because when people are more greatly educated, then your country is the one coming up with better strategies about how to handle the government and better inventions to make everyone's life easier. Less people are doing menial jobs and tasks because we can leave those things to people in other countries with less education than us and perform the more intelligent tasks ourselves. People are happier. More wealthy. The list goes on and on and having a higher education just benefits all of us. Like people said. Those people getting an education now are the ones who will handle the government and the country when we're old and too frail to do it ourselves.
And you do not have a right to sue people for not being intelligent. Why? Because there's a difference between giving someone the OPPORTUNITY to get an education and giving someone a GUARANTEE that they will get an education. An opportunity just means that you give them the option, but it's their responsibility to embrace it and take advantage of their situation and not yours. A guarantee means that if they don't get an education you get your money back. You can't force people to learn, but you can give them the tools and that's what we do.
