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But it is much more everyone else's than theirs. Everyone, individuals and businesses, pays into the pot, whether they have kids in the school or not. Individual parent's taxes are a minority fraction of the actual cost of running the education system.

Thus "siphoning": common public moneys being used to pay individual interests. If you want a private education for your kids, go right ahead and pay for it, don't ask the rest of us to subsidize you.

And yes, we all want a quality education for all children. Make schools better for everyone, not just the entitled or well connected.



Competition is a way to make things higher quality. School choice is competition.




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