There’s a question that should be asked more often, which gets at the moral foundations of treating education as an entitlement.
Suppose you own several properties in a town. You have two kids, who are being schooled at the expense of the town, which costs the town more than $500,000 over the course of two K-12 educations.
Now, you could sell one or two of those properties to pay for your kids to be schooled, thus relieving your fellow residents of that burden.
Or you could insist that the cost be borne by your fellow residents, including people whose grown children have to take out loans to pay their school taxes; elderly and disabled people on fixed incomes who have to eat less or keep their houses colder; homeschoolers who have to skimp on their kids to pay for your kids; and so on.
All so that you can spend the money you save on buying more properties, or fixing up your house, or taking nicer vacations, or getting a better car, or maybe buying a boat for your lakefront home.
What kind of parent would do that? And even feel proud of it?
