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Originally Posted by lyrelyre
It's worth noting that education is not a fundamental right. It is true that access to existing public education is protected. However, the Supreme Court has specifically stated that there is no fundamental right to education.
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Yeah, and some times it's interesting to me that things have gone this way.
We accept a public educational system that most of us regard as less than awesome for the majority of citizens and assume it's a legitimate governmental service, but most of us really don't want a system of public doctors and hospitals paid for like schools are paid for.
Maybe if companies hadn't started offering health insurance benefits as a way to attract workers when they essentially had salary freezes, we would have simply developed a more extensive system of public clinics and hospitals supported though taxes and more moderate billing. ETA: such a system would probably be about as uneven in quality as the public schools are, but it's interesting to think about how these two areas diverged.