As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.
It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.