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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opi - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 20-May-84 13:36:01 EDT
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>>        Probably the easiest way to solve the problem would be to
>>eliminate public schools altogether, something I heartily
>>support.

> You cannot be serious about this.  Most U.S. families cannot afford to
> send their youngsters to private elementary and/or high school.

> Yes, s/he can. I agree completely. The government has no business running
> public school (among many, MANY other things it's doing). Most families
> in the US could afford private schools if: A) They didn't have to pay taxes
> to help support public schools; and B) Private schools didn't have to
> compete with public schools for $'s.

> Still, lots of families would be unable to afford private schools. I'm sure
> that some of the fine, upstanding churchs we have would allow charity cases
> free access to the church schools. Of course, the fact that you may not
> particularly like the religion being taught in the church school should make
> the school even happier to accept - they can brainwash children they couldn't
> get to normally that way.

Please remember that the issue of how to pay for education is
philosophically separate from the issue of how to provide it.
In other words, even if you believe that everyone should have
some level of education paid for by tax money, it does not follow
from that that the government should be in the business of running
schools.