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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The public schools are paid for by the u.s. taxpayers.  I don't understand how a parent in S. Korea can just decide to send their kids to public school in the u.s. no rules against this?[/quote]  Yes, there are rules.  But, plenty of people from all over the world break rules here in the US, and plenty of Americans break foreign rules when they visit other countries.  The US gov't has better things to do than go after HS kids who are not committing violent crimes. I'd rather the gov't go after violent criminals, American born or otherwise, than spend tax dollars on going after HS kids from other countries.  After all the violent criminals are gone, then they can spend time and money going after HS kids that are just studying.[/quote]

Finally a honest answer. Yes they are breaking the ruleS but we should turn a blind eye to it because there are bigger problems in the world to worry about.

I do disagree that an American can go to other countries and get away with this. Most I'M familiar with rather strictly enforce their immigration rules.[/quote]

Get away with what? You buy or rent a residence in the US (that's legal, and it makes you a resident of the school district), and then you send your child to school on a student visa (that's legal too).[/quote]

A US citizen is paying taxes during the years before and after having children in the school system. Public school budgets assume that everyone is paying taxes, even those who are not using the schools. If families buy or rent only for the years their kids are in school and then leave the country when the kids graduate, then they are not really fully contributing to the taxes that go to pay for the schools. It would make sense to charge tuition for non-citizen children to come closer to recouping the cost of the education. 
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If you don't like the laws, then work to change the laws. In the meantime, it is legal.

Also, your argument doesn't really make sense, given that

a. most education funding is local. If I ordinarily live and work in State A, but we spend a year in State B, then would it make sense for State B to charge tuition?
b. every non-full-time-institutionalized adult who lives in a jurisdiction pays taxes -- starting with sales taxes.[/quote]

A lifelong resident is paying taxes for many years when they do not have children using the public schools, so they are contributing even when they are not making use of the public school system. If a family moves to the US when their kids are school age and moves away when they graduate, then they are only contributing when they are actually getting a benefit from the system. A resident family, or a family that uses private schools,  is contributing to the school budget for many years when they are not actually using the schools for their own children. 
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