DAVID HARTUNG wrote in a message to ALL:
 DH> My question is simple, the way I read this, the LP wants to 
 DH> completely abolish the public school system. How would those 
 DH> who cannot afford private school tuition educate their 
 DH> children? I am not neccesarily opposed to shutting down the 
 DH> public school system, but I am concerned that doing so risks 
 DH> producing a large pool of folks who do not have the tools to be 
 DH> producers in our society. Would the proper course not be to  
 DH> return control of our schools to the local school board, which 
 DH> would,  theoritcally be controlled by the parents of the 
 DH> students?
I don't see abolition of the system as being advocated...
What I do see is removing the authoritarian aspects of it.  Right now,  we 
have school systems that are able to _compel_ attendance,  with the law 
backing them up on that.  There's currently a situation going on,  for 
example,  in Harrisburg,  PA where they are so out of control with regard to 
one particular school that they're talking about establishing a _daytime 
curfew_ for school-age individuals,  where those who were caught outside of 
school during school hours would be cited and fined!  Where is the authority 
given for them to even consider such a law?
Worse yet,  in these parts a school district has taxing authority,  on the 
same level as a local municipality.  Yet there's no real representation of 
the citizens in the structure that runs that stuff.
It would seem to me that if the compulsory aspects of this stuff were done 
away with,  we'd have the folks who are running that stuff being forced to 
provide some other incentive for folks to want to use their facilities.  Like 
maybe getting some better results than what they're getting now.  You speak 
up there of "producing a large pool of folks who do not have the tools to be 
producers in our society."  Don't you see that as happening now?  It sure 
looks that way to me more often then not.  I read recently somewhere or other 
about how some businesses who were hiring "HS Graduates" had to give those 
graduates remedial reading courses _AT A THIRD GRADE LEVEL_ in order to get 
these people to the point where they could become basically functional.
That being the case,  what the hell are we paying all those taxes for?
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