The state can refrain from paying for the Yeshivah portion of the education. But they have every responsibility to pay for the SECULAR education, which we support through our taxes. Public School is free education, for those who attend. If all our children suddenly enrolled in PS, they state would be forced to pay for them, that is, if the state could even squeeze them all in to the public school facilities that are persently available. Can you imagine what would happen if all frum parents converged on the Board of Ed come September? The state should at least fund the portion to which all children ARE entitled by law, to be educated. That would cut tuition in half, I would think (more, because PS teachers are paid more than their religious counterparts).
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