Hacker News Reader

Comment by zackbloom | Hacker News Reader

I think a generally cheaper and easier way to manage it would be to require all children, rich and poor, go to the same schools. The economic factors would change pretty dramatically for being a public school teacher.

View on HN

Seems to me that private school tuition should be taxed to provide benefits to public schooling.

The rich would still afford private school. Public schools get more funding.

People paying for private schools still pay school taxes for the public district they reside in. You'd basically be double taxing which would probably fail in a court challenge.

This is only possible if school is no longer a physical place (i.e. everyone does school online). So long as school is in a physical space, it needs to be one relatively close to you, and then you're not close to giving everyone the same experience, as prosperity and educational attainment differ in granularity by more than a school bus can travel every day.

Could at least stop basing school funding off of local taxes. Children's education shouldn't be tied to their parent's wealth.

What if the rich parents disagree with the poor parents about how the school should be run?

That's what school board elections are for.

They might have to compromise, and find solutions that work for both.

Yeah, individuals should be subordinate to the state. They should do what the government tells them to, when it tells them to, how it tells them to.

Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. Mussolini

Reply on news.ycombinator.com