Marjorie Cortez is just plain wrong. Her argument seems to be that the way to show how much we value our children is to give our money to the state so it can educate them.
I'd rather keep my own money, thank you very much, and use it to fulfill my parental duties with respect to education rather than trying to delegate that responsibility to any government.
For example, my children are familiar with nearly all the national parks in Utah and some in surrounding states. My children have experienced some of the arts and entertainment offered in our community. In addition, I teach them honesty, ethics, morality, sex education, work, teamwork, social skills, leadership and other virtues in a way that I could never trust the schools to do.
Marjorie should feel free to use her money to hire the schools as surrogate parents, but let me keep enough of mine to teach them the things that I think they should be taught.
Joe Nunes
South Jordan