No.
Private schools are expensive b/c they keep class sizes small, hire the best teachers, have the best technology, etc… etc… If there were no public schools there would just be more private schools or larger ones. In order for the level of education to stay the same, the costs would actually increase since most private schools get SOME money from the government. You can’t go from 12 kids in a class to 24 and expect the quality to stay the same.
So in fact, getting rid of public funding of education will increase the costs of private schools.
So please explain to me how a single mother of 2 school aged children is going to send them to school @ 8-10K per kid making 20K/yr pre-tax. That is leaving her between 4k and 0 after tuition fees, or a maximum of $10/day to survive.
So how do the poor afford an education? Would you say that since their parents didn’t make enough money those children are not entitled to an education? Wouldn’t that go against the general welfare of the country?
And the only way those children will be able to go to a private schools is by pushing the cost to the parents of wealthier children. This really, is just taxing them.
Public schooling is 100% essential to the growth and success of this country. Our education system needs an overhaul, no doubt, but we need to have a public education system. We need to have high federal standards, we need to employ only the best teachers and we need to make sure they are giving their students the education they deserve (the best possible education) year in and year out. Teachers should be tested YEARLY. I think we should do away with the teachers unions, because teachers shouldn’t need unions, we should take care of our teachers better. Teachers should be making 6 figures. Becoming a teacher should be HARD, as hard as becoming a lawyer or a doctor. And it should be free or close to it, after all there is no greater contribution to the wellbeing of our country than educating the future generation. Our public school system should be so good there shouldn’t be a need for private schools.