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letting people fend for themselves?
there's the cohort of parents that use school as free daycare and are glad to keep sending the kids
and a cohort that wouldn't bother sending them anymore if they weren't forced to
and a bunch paying for it that would stop if they weren't forced to pay for it
I remember reading what a hard sell it was back in the prairie days of 'Murica
taxing it, making it "free" and legally required was the only way to convince such families to take Daddy's little corn-picker out of the field and learning arithmetic
for some school is the only hope for some of those kids and the only reason anyone even bothers to bathe them, to avoid legal trouble
There is tons of evidence that economic improvement is tired directly to education. I know the peckerwoods didn't like it but forcing them to be better worked out well for them.