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From: ebohlman@netcom.com (Eric Bohlman)
Subject: Re: Quality of education  Was: ...
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William H. Stoddard (whstoddard@axnet.net) wrote:

: Personally, I would prefer in the long run to see education paid for by
: the families of the children being educated.  But until then, or if you

Why does this make sense?  Parents are not the primary beneficiaries of 
their children's educations, so why should they be the ones to pay?  The 
current system where more-or-less everybody pays for the current 
generation's education seems fair to me, since we all got our (K-12) 
educations without paying for them ourselves.

