It doesn't matter whether you have children or grandchildren currently enrolled in the public school system or not--if you own real estate in Washington a portion of your property taxes goes towards funding K-12 education.

If you knew how much pork (waste) there was in our current SEA/NEA/WEA Union controlled public school system you would be sick.

The Voucher System I suggested would not require more taxes, but the competiton for education $$'s would go a long way towards trimming the 'pork/fat' in public schools and make all schools operate at more efficient and productive levels.

You can send children to a SEA/WEA/NEA Union controlled public schools that are ineffective and poorly managed for almost $10,000 a year and have about 2/3's of them graduate HS--or you can send them much better managed private schools that have over 90 % of their students not only graduate from HS, but go on to attend college for less than $6,500 a year.

Whether you want to or not, as a home owner you're investing in this system. I for one like to get the best return on my investments.