If parents are shelling out good money to a private school, they expect quality.
If they are sending their kids to a public school, they are accepting welfare, and the product is as good as government cheese.
Such parents can say what they will about “their” neighborhood schools being superior, or about how their taxes are paying for the product, but if they’re sending their children to government schools they do not care about the quality.
They don’t obtain food from food banks because they’re choosy about what goes in their stomachs. They don’t live in public housing because they care about the quality of their neighbors. They’ll take an extra income somewhere to buy a car or get a mortgage because a better car and a better house are important, and what they sacrifice first is the children’s education.
Can’t do private school, the mortgage comes first. Can’t homeschool, we need two incomes. Go to public school. We don’t know who’s teaching you what, and we don’t care. Get going.
Absolute crap. Most parent don't have the money to send their kids to private school, especially since they are already paying for education through taxes. To say they don't care about the quality of their kids education is smug and elitist. To say that people should forgo buying a house to send their kids to private schools is crap. I'm old enough to remember when public schools did a good job, but hey were controlled by local school boards. We need to get the feds out of education and let local schools be run locally. Your condescending attitude towards the majority of Americans who send their kids to public schools is a great example of why the meme "conservative only care about the rich" never dies.