Hard to provide "free" stuff if you don't have the tax base to support it

its a free service for pupils provided by local, state and federal taxpayers..its also a really good idea to have an educated populace.

Allan

Whatever, I refuse to enter into an intellectual discussion with the unprepared.

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oh i am prepared, you just dont like the correct answers provided.

Allan

My area periodically approves more school bonds. Also, since I moved here, the elementary school has replaced and built three complete playground sets made out of metal each of which could have lasted indefinitely. Just sayin.

Bless your heart!!!

You actually believe that, how cute.

what free public education k-12?

most people do because its true.

Allan

What is ACCURATE is K-12 Education is paid for via taxes and other govt funding.

It is provided free of charge to students and their families, but it is in no way free.

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I think we are getting bogged down in semantics.

The vast majority of Americans would say education up to age 18 is free but still understand that it is paid for by taxes.

Oh I get it, it’s just I value accuracy.
As I said students in K-12 education are not charged for the education. Means exactly that, they are not charged, as it is not free.

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Far too much stuff is considered “free stuff” from the government. It’s a colloquialism, yes. But it’s also an attitude.

We had a street project in our town. People complained about the way things were blocked off for far too long, and there was also conflict over the cost of the excessive inlaid brickwork of the median.

The mayor’s response was that we should be glad that we didn’t pay for it. That it was all funded by a federal grant.

“Free stuff.”

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I’d be all for public school education if it went back the way it was prior to the almost complete takeover by Libs in the 80s. 12 years of school used to produce literate kids who could at least do the basic math skills necessary for adult life. Today, public schools, especially in big Lib cities like Baltimore for example, graduate kids where not a single one could read or do basic math at grade level. They have no capacity for critical thinking. Can’t locate Canada or Mexico on a map…But praise Jesus that even though they don’t even know what facism is, or who the Nazis were, where they’re from or what war they fought in (and the fact that they murdered 6 million Jews), they know how to chant the words like the mindless morons the Lib education system produces. Yeah, doom them to a lifetime of stupidity and poverty and welfare in the name of “free” public education. The perfect Lib citizen…

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