How about that for a headline. I was reading just a few minutes ago about charter schools begin forced on unwilling city residents. Of course the claim is thoughtless. Public schools are not universally accepted, which is why people go to private schools, home school and have voted to allow charter schools.
Private school and home school parents perhaps have the greatest claim of having public schools forced upon them. It's really only been recently that many areas have accepted home schooling. I recall about 15 years ago when my daughter was home schooled for a few years that people sort of looked at us funny, even in a community that was above the national average for home schooled students. These parents do not use the public schools system and would not vote for it if there was a vote (now wouldn't that be interesting) and yet they pay the same taxes as those who use the public schools or support public education.
In the same way, charter schools are legal and have been voted on my the general populace or their representatives. Charter schools have not been forced on anyone and certainly not anymore than public schools are forced on those who oppose them or don't want to send their kids to them.
The nature of a democracy is that some of my money is going to go to something that I do not support. It's called tolerance and compromise. It's called working within the democratic system. When that's lost, then we have either anarchy or else totalitarianism.
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