The Rubicon that is about to be crossed by the national system of pre-college education in this country is foreshadowed by this snippet from the NYT: "In San Jose, Calif., one elementary school district has been discussing a proposal that the families of its 13,000 students commit to 30 hours of volunteer work during the year."
Behind the obvious absurdity of trying to force taxpayers to "commit" to "volunteer" work, there is the sense that public education may be dimly beginning to face the reality that some sort of tuition will have to be charged to parents with children in public schools, especially to those who have more than one or two children. That way, the long-suffering taxpayers who are being crushed by escalating property taxes will have some relief, and the people in each school district will have the type of education system they want. There will have to be some sort of base payment to schools per pupil from the state so that poor districts don't get any worse off, but Ned says let people who expect a free ride by having multiple children educated at his expense, pay their own way for a change, and be damned.
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