Why should she be so upset? That's what all her liberal friends do anyway -- send their kids to private schools. She fits right in.
Even the educational chancellor of the City of NY doesn't send his kids to the public schools. Paul Vallas, the head of Philadelphia public schools, doesn't send his kids to Philadelphia's public schools. When he was head of Chicago's public schools, he said the schools weren't good enough yet for his children. I have a feeling they never would have been "good enough yet" for his children had he stayed in Chicago.
Another reason to avoid today's public schools? They set kids up for ridicule:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110004691 Imagine taking a NYC Regents test and one of the questions has to do with "The Elderly Man and the Sea." Now most people who graduated 20 years ago from high school and are familiar with Ernest Hemingway's work know that the correct title is "The Old Man and the Sea."
Imagine our student a couple of years later at college or, say, in a discussion with his boss or coworkers at a cocktail party and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" is brought into the conversation for some reason. Imagine the embarrassment the ex-public school student will suffer when he insists that the title of the book is "The Elderly Man and the Sea" and is proved wrong. At least he will understand that his education in that particular area was a fraud.
Just one of the many ways today's public schools screw kids up.
Or do what we did. Move to an area where the public schools are as good as private schools.
Anyone remember Stan Frieburg's hilariuos send-up of Political Correctness (in the late 50's no less IIRC) called "Elderly Man River"?