Ray From Cleveland
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Funny how people bring out the "it sounds more like socialism" card when it suits them, but when the govt starts paying for workers in private companies many don't care because it's a right wing govt doing it.
I have no idea what you're talking about with government paying private workers. Care to give me an example?
You seem to think kids should grow up with all the trappings of the unequal world. Why shouldn't poor kids get the same educations as the rich kids if both are being sent to state school? Why should a kid being brought up in poverty go to a run down no money school and a rich kid who has everything go to a wealthy state school? It makes no sense to me. It seems to encourage social injustice and lead to all the problems that shouldn't exist in a society like the USA.
Why should poor kids not get the same education as those kids from better income families? Because we don't have state schools. Most if not all of the funding comes from local taxes. As you said, property taxes are the most common.
What you're talking about is have everybody in the state pool their money together, and allow the state to divide it so that people in lower income areas have the same funding as those in upper income areas. Yes, that is socialism. Why should I (who lives in the suburbs) pay money for some inner-city kid that lives 200 miles from my city so that he or she can have the same education as those in my suburb?
Every city, every town, every community controls their own education. If you want better education, then pay up. Vote in levies and increase the funding of your own schools. It will cost you more money, but any community can have the same education system as those in better areas, it's just that you have to pay for it.