Why should we pay for public schools?

Dumber than the fubar ...... loving protesters who are erasing history? I can't wait to see all of the forthcoming disasters. I love watching protesters get injured by police.

Your English isn’t very good either 

Why should we pay for public schools that turn out people like you?

Close the public schools.  Watch China and Russia laugh their asses off at you for your stupidity.

Yeah who needs education

Because if you think things are bad now, having half a country of uneducated people who cannot read or write would mean you would be paying for them in welfare and crime.

Universal education is worth having government pay for.  There are societal benefits (Milton Friedman called them 'neighborhood effects') that are quite large.  So you benefit from having a more educated populace even if you don't have kids yourself.  Education level correlates strongly with economic prosperity, reduced crime, better life expectancy and practically every other measure of societal good you want to name.

But it's even deeper than that.  A democracy thrives on an informed electorate and education helps with that.  Democracies that fail often struggle with the problem of uneducated voters.

Now, the question you SHOULD be asking, but didn't, is "While govt paying for universal education is a good thing, why should government be the SUPPLIER of that education?"  THAT would be a more useful topic.  Many studies show that private schooling has done better even with the same exact students that failed in public schools.  Charter schools, vouchers, and scholarship tax credit programs all outperform public schools even when they get the same students.  And they achieve these superior results despite being paid LESS per pupil than public schools.

as long as you have kids in the school system I agree with paying tax money , BUT once your kids are thru school that tax needs to be removed from your tax bill

the saying goes “stay in school” but it really should be “pay attention in school”

those who did the latter will know the answer to your question

Too right!

Lets KEEP America as thick as pigshit!