If the mandate is unacceptable then me and a majority of the country will never budge on this, EVER.
Knock yourselves out. I don't give a shit what you do in your own back yard. It doesn't give you the right to coerce me to do the same. That's the thing with liberals... Never content to mind their own business and let folks be. Always have to stick their noses in where they don't belong.
How the hell do you know what's good for a kid in Montana?
Children shouldn't miss vital opportunity because of crappy parenting. Without a mandate and a public option a lot of bad parents would ruin the lives of their children. I simply will never get behind that.
That presupposes that YOU are the arbiter of what a good education is. That presupposes that the feral government best knows and can dictate from three thousand miles away. That is as unamerican as it comes.
You have no business here (MT). Leave me and mine alone. WE know best the way we should go. Not you, and certainly not the feds.