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« on: April 03, 2017, 02:15:54 PM » |
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The federal education budget is $68 Billion as of 2016, meaning if I'm reading the bill properly it would be giving $680 million to not just people who are home-schooled, but to families with an income of less than 40K (which narrows the pool even further, as I assume even a 'working class' family where both parents earn 20k would be cut from this)
Homeschooling can be successful; but it's completely arbitrary to simply cut a very large slice out of the education budget and just throw it over to homeschooling. I haven't done the math, but you'd be handing over a very large amount of money with no explicit reason for doing so.
It's like trying to tackle the drug epidemic by cutting 1% from the DHHS budget, and giving it to people who've suffered a drug problem.
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