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IMO, public school should be mandatory for the children of anyone who has authority over how public schools are run (e.g., I object to Newsom, who closed the public schools, sending his children to private school), but I have no problem with anyone else choosing private school or homeschooling for their children.

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This is already how it works. The people have control over public schools. They elect the officials who oversee it. If everybody wanted public schools to do X, public schools would do X and there wouldn’t be anything anyone could do about it. We can amend the fucking constitution. The problem isn’t a lack of power for the people, it’s that people collectively aren’t very smart. There’s no civil solution to that.

This is one of those cute ideas that's a pretty blatant equal protection violation.

How would this be an equal protection violation if "the mayor of a city has to live within the city" isn't?

Why should the children have to do something just because their parents have a particular job? It isn’t their decision what their parents do.

You phrase that as if children would get to decide for themselves where to go to school, when in fact it's their parents who decide for them.

That’s the point - impacts them but never their decision. Shouldn’t impose a restriction on someone based on their parents’ jobs.

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