lc: Taxpayers have a right to sit on a public board of ed that pays for educational services for taxpayers children. The public board of ed controls spending for services for both public and private schools. The taxpayers right to sit on the board is because it is a public government body. If the board of ed only determines public school funding and stops determining private school services with the latter determined by another entity, and private schools were government funded, then it would be more logical to limit participation on the board of ed to public school parents.
Taxpayers do not have a right, nor should they have a right, to determine how private schools spend money to educate children, even if partially tax funded. The school is a private entity not a government body. Only the parents and private school should determine their educational curriculum, and how they choose to spend their educational dollars, as government bureaucrats shouldn’t be replacing parents in determining how to educate the children.
And tax dollars should pay for children’s education regardless of where they go to school, public or private, because parents pay school education taxes and parents should decide where to send their children without government interference into how they choose to educate their children.
In fact, there is good reason to disband public schools and privatize them, considering the government’s proven failure in educating children in public schools. The government does not belong in the school business.