The school funding reallocation proposal (Monitor front page, Feb. 3) is a bad idea. Reallocation of public school funds would stress public school budgets and force closures.
An increased demand for private schools would raise the costs of primary and secondary education and make it unaffordable for too many parents to send their children to school.
Increasing numbers of children would have to learn how to survive adulthood without educational credentials and with qualifications for only the least desirable jobs. For them, crime would pay but an honest day’s work would not.
Children with unsupervised, idle time on their hands could become beggars and teenage hustlers. Our streets would be significantly less safe. Human potential is a sad thing to waste.
This reallocation proposal would waste a good deal of tax money and could diminish New Hampshire’s economy. What would stop parents from “home schooling” their kids for the sole purpose of receiving state allocation funds?
The likely rise in property taxes would decrease buying power while it would squeeze household budgets even further. Tourists alienated by beggars and hustlers would lose interest in visiting our towns and cities.
Though I have no children, I support taxation to fund public schools. In no way would I support taxation to fund private education ventures.
SANDRA D. POLLEYS-BUNCH
Concord