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In “Parochial funding plan under fire” (Page 1, April 13), State Superintendent Glenn “Max” McGee is quoted as saying: “I have great respect for private education. But the point is that they are private schools, and public money should go to public schools.” I say that the so-called private schools are just as public as the state schools. They are performing a public function when they are teaching the future citizens of this country how to read and write, add and subtract.
Those so-called private schools are filling a vital public need. The crucial issue is that this country produce the best-educated students in the world.
