John - I understand your feeling, but look at it this way. If all of the private schools closed tomorrow the public schools would have to instantly absorb all of those children. How many new schools would your city need to build and how many additional teachers would your city need to hire to handle the increased enrollment?
How much would that cost? That figure is the amount that the public schools are being subsidized by the private school parents. Religious school or not - private schools save the taxpayers a lot of money. In my area many or most of the public schools are at or near capacity. Several of the buildings have quite a few "temporary" classrooms in trailers. The school nearest me has had those temporary trailers behind the school since I moved here in the mid '80s. I don't know how long they had been there before that. There is no way the school system could absorb the thousands of kids in private schools. The public administrators have openly admitted this on several occasions. The private school parents voluntarily pay their taxes and private tuition not only for religious reasons. The private schools have their own problems. But that is a different topic. Any tax dollars that help keep the private schools open are tax dollars that would be spent for those same students to be transferred to public schools. And since most religious schools around here operate on a lot less money per student, the cost to the tax payers would be even greater. gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:05 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Sorenson >> >> Interspersed... On 4/6/2013 7:26 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> >>> Voucher systems provide education financing but allow parents to make >>> their own choice. The selections are generally many and no one is >>> compelled to attend a religious institution. Thus, they don't really >>> fit the definition of a public school. >> >> >> I have no problem with parents choosing to send their children to >> private or religious schools - *Choosing* being the operative word. My >> point is that they have the option of attending a public school and if >> they choose a private school they know there is an obligation to pay >> tuition. The taxpayers do not/should not have an obligation to >> subsidize them. > > > Yeah. That's my big objection. I don't mind paying the taxes that go to > public schools, but they're taxing me to pay for church schools. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
