From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 07:54:09 MDT
>From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
>I think it's horrible that children's educational opportunities
>are limited by the financial resources of their parents. It would
>be great to have a better way of funding child education.
I respectfully disagree.
This is incorrect, the average parent pays for only a small portion
of their childrens education, most of the real cost is paid by
non-parents.
How? In 1999 the average federal spending per child on education
was $7,348 dollars. I know a number of families with 3 or more
children in school, I don't know any who pay even half of this cost
in taxes. I have no children in school, I am one of those
involuntarily paying the bulk of these costs.
I think everyone should pay an equal (small) portion of their taxes
toward education and the parents should pay the rest. If they wish
to have children they should pay for the cost of educating them.
Brian
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