ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) (03/09/84)
"You cannot be serious about this. Most U.S. families cannot afford to send their youngsters to private elementary and/or high school." This statement confuses two issues: whether or not the government should be in the education business and how education should be funded. If we decide that universal education benefits everyone and that everyone should therefore share the cost, it is possible to do this without government-controlled schools in any of a variety of ways. One obvious way would be to have the government pick up some part of the cost of educating children.