Picture the local grocery store. Now, imagine it as "your store." Not in an ownership sense, but the store you were assigned to based on your district. You pay a property tax that goes to fund this store. You are allotted a certain amount to spend each week or month which is sent directly to the store for use only at this store. Not bad, I just run down to my store, get the basics of what I need, and go home. No hassles.
But what if your store doesn't carry a certain brand of something that you like? Or if it has bad management and the floors are not kept clean and produce is not so fresh? No problem, I just find another store. Do you? Remember, the money you paid in taxes will stay at your store.
If you wish to go elsewhere, it will have to come out of your pocket. Now you end up paying double for the service you want. Not a bad deal if you can afford it, but if you can't? Oh well, I guess I will just stay here and hope my store gets better.
Sound odd? We wouldn't accept this in our grocery store. Why then do we do this with our children? We send them off to their assigned government schools to be educated.
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