Betsy DeVos and the GOP's Plan to Destroy Public Schools

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5. I attended Catholic school in kindergarten and first grade.

After that, public schools all the way.

When my older son was going into 7th grade I moved him from a very good public school to a private school because of issues with bullying. I often said that I'd have gotten a job cleaning houses to pay for that private school. I knew at least one other mother there who did exactly that.

I used to get somewhat shunned when I'd challenge moms in the parking lot of the private school who complained they shouldn't have to pay public school taxes. Nope, I'd say. We all need to pay them, whether or not we currently have children enrolled in public school And even if you have twenty children, there will come a time when you no longer have a kid in public school yourself. Or maybe you never had kids. Or you moved to a different state in retirement. You still have a societal obligation to support public schools.

I'm never going to have grandchildren, darn, but I am more than happy to continue paying taxes for public schools. Our children are collectively our future.