If a poor parent wants to spend money on an AOPS class there needs to be a way to make it happen.
I have read that schools are required to provide an "appropriate" education, meanwhile parents may want "the best" education. I found this on an advocacy webpage provided by
wrightslaw...
here and
here. From the US Department of Education, whether led by DeVos or others in the past, parents might receive something deemed "appropriate", not necessarily what is "best".
Clearly with a
federal debt over $19 trillion (over $60K per person), the amount of taxes collected falls far short of government spending. Increasing the federal debt (which children will then be required to pay in future years) may not be sound or sustainable practice.
There is often a
tradeoff between things being "
free at point of service" and
people being "free".
To live within personal family budgets, many families find cost-effective alternatives. To use
AoPs as an example, rather than "Plan A" purchasing an AoPS online class... a family might develop "Plan B" purchasing a used AoPS book, or even finding a book through inter-library loan.
