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Perhaps even more, considering that the outcome of homeschooling is a net positive and not a drain on the community like many of the public schools 'products'.

Public education needs to be challenged in a competitive marketplace or its hegemony and power (of taxation, indoctrination) will never diminish.

Perhaps even more, considering that the outcome of homeschooling is a net positive and not a drain on the community like many of the public schools 'products'. Public education needs to be challenged in a competitive marketplace or its hegemony and power (of taxation, indoctrination) will never diminish.

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[–] • 5 pts

I send my kid to private school, yet I still have to pay my full share of property taxes to the local school system. Same as people that don't even have kids.

[–] • 2 pts

Yes, it's bullshit. Property tax for schools is awful

[–] • 2 pts

It really is. You never truly own your property.

We need some taxes, but it's too much and they don't use it wisely.

[–] • 3 pts

I would agree that homeschooling needs to be more commonplace, but I'm not sure about the tax idea.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Not if it raises my taxes they shouldn't. Just saying. The govt is too stupid to set this up in a way that won't be massively abused.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

You think it will drive taxes up? Any attempt to increase school taxes after this would be transparently shot down IMO because the rationale for increasing the taxes is "need to build new schools to support more students" but here we are taking away students from them.

Set it up in a way that no school board can abuse; i.e. it is illegal to tax any more than X% of appraised value, or any increase in tax counts double for the incentive (so they bleed more every time they try to hike).

Here in Texas school boards are forced to hold referenda for tax hikes.

[–] • 2 pts

This would be great but I can't see it happening. The government would rather kids be in public school to be indoctrinated so it's not going to reward parents for not subjecting their kids to that.

[–] • 2 pts

Oh man do I have a story I could tell you..... this hits way too close to home and holy shit it’s way way way worse than you think it is. If you challenge the public schools and try to do things like this it’s is insane what they will do to you.

[–] • 1 pt

Does anyone here homeschool their kids? It’ll be a few years for us, but seriously looking into it..

[–] • 3 pts

We do, this is our first yr.

[–] • 1 pt

What do you think so far? Do you schedule stuff to get your kids together with other homeschools?

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

We sent my oldest to K in public school last yr and noticed a decline in wanting to learn especially reading. I've got her confidence back up with that now and she is much more willing to try so even with just that I would say it's the right fit for us.

We have not done anything with other homeschoolers yet, I feel pretry alone in that regard. Im hopeing to get involved with other homeschooler next yr though.

[–] • 0 pt

I’d love to, my wife is 50-50. She wants the kids to be able to compete with others directly, I guess in the way public and even private schools are set up. That said, with the crazy bullshit being taught and going on at almost all schools these days, she’s just about seen enough..

[–] • 1 pt

This is actually a great idea, yet with the bureaucracy in place that exists to protect it's honey pot, it'll unfortunately never happen.