The Bumper Sticker Problem

I haven ' t posted the past couple of days because my mother died on Wednesday. Not a tragedy really, it was overdue, but I had to deal with various issues. Next item: Parents determine the education of their children.The bullet list I ' m working through can be thought of as bumper sticker slogans. Yes, they ' re short and simple but that doesn ' t mean anybody can understand them. On the contrary, they may seem superficially plausible or even convincing, but it turns out that they evade the facts, or complexity of a problem. They may contain an unstated assumption that turns out to be false, or make sense only in an unreal world.  A basic problem with this one is that if you send your children to school, all the other children in that school also have parents, and they may not want exactly what you want. If it ' s a public school, it ' s also funded by the taxpayers of your town, state and country, most of whom do not have children in that particular school, or perhaps any school. Usually, most of the funding comes from local property taxes, so the school board, which has the most control, is elected by the voters of the city or town. It ' s very likely to listen to what parents have to say, but again, they aren ' t all going to agree. You could set up a voucher system, as many people advocate, in which parents could use tax dollars to pay tuition at a private school. That ' s not going to give parents complete control, obviously, because there might not...
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