Why pay taxes for public education?

[timdog44]

11. Agree totally.

We have no children and we have never failed to vote for education policies. Left to private education, most children in the United States would receive no education. And of course children still come out wanting. Education policies in different parts of the country have gotten so far off track it is ridiculous. Intelligent design, denial of climate change, "we all grew up with this kind of education", less hours in school, and ineffective testing if needed at all. But we should not deny monies for education because of failures of individual school boards and prejudices of same. Some one mentioned spending as much on education as we do on war. Even a fraction of the military budget would be good. We need to keep up the fight for education.