Re: School Privatization
I'm one of those people.
I believe that no one has a right to an education, because this "right" lays a claim on other people who are then forced to provide you with it.
The idea of a public school system was first really developed in the Communist Manifesto. It is at heart a communist idea. The state forces children to go to a government run school, and then forces everyone to pay for it. If you don't have a kid, you still have to pay for the education of other people's children. If you want to homeschool your child, then that opens a whole new can of worms, (I'm not sure exactly what you need to go through for this, perhaps someone else could elaborate).
Don't get me wrong. I think education is very important. But I also believe that not only is it unjust to force taxpayers to pay for other people's kids, but the state of public schools are so terrible that they can hardly be thought of as providing an education to begin with.
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