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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Yep. And I firmly believe as a society we should be funding education to a level that the public system can so a good job with special needs students. We are currently not even close to those levels, and taking the money from independent schools is the stupidest place to get it.
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Actually, most would agree that taking the money away from private / charter / religious schools is the smartest way to streamline public education and properly fund and run it. That action by itself takes the leeches off of the public education system and forces those streams of education to stand on their own financially or crumble into dust because they only survived by taking a disproportionate amount of public funding to educate a small number of students.
More importantly, defunding the private schools is a massive political win because it cuts the legs out of the UCP who are clearly trying to destroy public education in order to create more and more private education (private & charter). Stopping their agenda is critical to saving the public education system and if we can democratically force them to defund private education then that will create a massive problem for them as they would either need to ignore the will of the people they are meant to represent or give up their plot to destroy public education. I am pretty sure they would choose the former over the latter.
As mentioned above by GioforPM, I wouldn't worry about regulating the private schools after defunding them. Just like private liquor stores or bars and pubs, if a government regulates them and they break the rules then said government shuts them down. It is a very serious function of governments and if private schools decide they'd like to FAFO then I expect a number of them would be heavily fined and/or disbanded to set expectations with the rest of them.