limited supply of private schools does not exceed the average spent by government on a single American child. In the 1993-94 school year, the American taxpayers gave the government 6,500 dollars per student to provide education. In that same year, the average tuition paid by private school students was 3,100 dollars. Even more shocking, private school tuitions ranged from a low of 1,600 to 9,500 dollars (NCES). With the government charging the people more than double the average tuition of private schools while nearly half of those people consider public schooling to be only fair or worse, government has shown their lack of ability to effectively provide education. Understandably, many would still remain skeptical of such a radical and conservative proposal. One concern they may have would be the ability of low-income families to pay for any education. The function of a free market involves private enterprisers competing to supply the services that the market demands. The situation of a low-income family may fall below even a free markets ability to meet the demand. However, a progressive tax credit incentive program could be created out of the excess funds formerly used to pay for the public schools (Libertarian). The funds freed by the retreat of government from education would not be limited to the state and local levels. President Bush asked Congress to provide the Department of Education with a budget of 56.5 billion dollars for the next fiscal year (Langan and Murphey). Governments answer to the problems with their public schools is more of the taxpayers money.The debate over education reform will continue forever as long as the government is allowed to keep such an unfair monopoly. With the existence of many different desires and demands from parents and the lack of governments ability to provide a universal and cost-effective education system, the people should demand the governments withdrawal from educa...
