Did you get an education? Do you benefit because you live in a society where people are afforded a free education? Is your quality of life improved (in the same ways it is for other things that you might not have a direct use for) because of free education? Let's say that you don't want to fund education that you are not directly using but that that money doesn't come back to you either - where does it? What would you spend it on that you think would be a better use of your tax dollars?
I don't plan of having kids but I am going to graduate school to be a teacher - I have my own opinion on this (i.e. more money should be spent on education rather than less - esp in a time when some schools lack the most basic of supplies) which is that money doesn't fix everything/fix a broken-at-the-core school but that a lack of money sure can exacerbate existing problems (lack of money to recruit good teachers, lack of money for supplies, for infratructure repairs, etc.). I'm also in favor of funding schools in a way that does not reply on property tax since that system only widens the have/have not gap. I'm in favor of pooling all of the money and re-distributing it equally (did I mention that I'm a Socialist, mostly? ;) so that a student in Dorchester had just as good of a chance at a decent education as a child in Concord without having to require that the kids in the low-income areas travel lots to get to a good school.
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Date: 2008-09-16 03:19 pm (UTC)I don't plan of having kids but I am going to graduate school to be a teacher - I have my own opinion on this (i.e. more money should be spent on education rather than less - esp in a time when some schools lack the most basic of supplies) which is that money doesn't fix everything/fix a broken-at-the-core school but that a lack of money sure can exacerbate existing problems (lack of money to recruit good teachers, lack of money for supplies, for infratructure repairs, etc.). I'm also in favor of funding schools in a way that does not reply on property tax since that system only widens the have/have not gap. I'm in favor of pooling all of the money and re-distributing it equally (did I mention that I'm a Socialist, mostly? ;) so that a student in Dorchester had just as good of a chance at a decent education as a child in Concord without having to require that the kids in the low-income areas travel lots to get to a good school.