The point is, not all public schools are sewers. Some do their job very well.
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In some communities the public schools are essentially private school because of demographics and socioeconomic status. I live in a town with lousy public schools but my taxes are about 4K per year. Two towns over have an excellent public school system which is essentially a private school system and the taxes on what I have would be about 12-14K per year. So moving there I would pay 8-10K tuition annually. We have had a few large families in our time move there temporarily to get their kids through that system, and move back to our lower tax base once the kids are all out. Me, I homeschooled, so it didn’t really matter what the school was like.
I went to a decent public school as well. It was a large rural district and my teachers were members of the community. In many cases, those teachers were the same ones who taught my parents.
However, today the place is an absolutely politically correct social experimentation disaster and the teachers are fully indoctrinated marxist clymers.
Yep, you got it.
My siblings and I went through one of the best public school systems in the country during the 60’-70’s. We even had a Rifle team. BTW -it was and is “Union Free” because they pay more than any union scale could afford.
Lots of big families back then. They would all move out soon after all the kids finished school.
Property taxes based on property values in that school district today are over $20,000 per household, with many wealthy families paying over $75K per year. No rifle team, drugs all over and all-out America-hating liberals running everything.
The property taxes are deductible for Federal purposes so it is actually more like tax-free, private school tuition.
Socio-economic fracturing. Wealthy families can afford to keep away the pathologies of poverty. Online education will be providing solutions to many of these issues in the very near future.
All children deserve a chance to become productive, responsible and self-reliant citizens.