Modest Proposal : ‘Spend Tax Money in Classrooms’

It is brutally apparent that the public school system is a financial disaster. Apparent too is the primary reason. The victors, the parents, have achieved a multilayered rip-off at the expense of the primary objective, education. The spoiled, the students, receive a smorgasbord of non-educational services--transportation, food service and school athletics (not to be confused with physical education). It is absurd to expect that schools should furnish irrelevant non-educational frills. These “fringe benefits” must be paid for separately by the parents. Tax revenues for education should be spent in the classrooms, in the libraries, and on the playgrounds.

Schools should not be in the transportation business, the food service business or the athletics business (not to be confused with P.E.) Parents who wish to have their children provided with non-essentials will simply have to pick up the check or, alternatively, all parents could be billed a flat amount for such services.