Why?
Because they are indeed exactly that, the education of last resort. They are to ensure everyone in our nation gets at least a basic education.. that is all. They cannot turn away students... They are not the first choice if you wish your child educated.
Public schools are ALWAYS outperformed by private schools, there may be a scam private school here or there, but as a whole, public schools do not remotely educate kids as well as their private counterparts.
For instance in my local public gradeschool, there is a child who literally roams the halls all day long, whenever he feels like it he gets up and wanders around, the teachers don’t stop him and he is violent and frankly mentally unstable. The other children in the class avoid him, and the teacher and administration cannot get rid of him.. he disrupts the class, hinders the other childrens learning, etc etc etc...
Public schools are hamstrung by having to take everyone, including children whos parents teach them nothing... In California, where Asian and Arab families are common, a boy is taught to show ZERO respect for any woman other than their mother.... so guess what happens as these little $hit$ enter school and have female teachers through most of their schooling?
Your child deserves to be educated, not indoctrinated, and not hamstrung by PC nonsense. Public schools anymore produce children who after 12 years of “education” are incapable of making the most rudimentary of judgemental decisions. They may have memorized facts, but are incapable of applying those facts to make rational and reasonable judgements and discriminations in their lives.
Go read “The closing of the American Mind”.
Its no coincidence that those closes to the public school systems, particularly teachers, often send their children to private schools.
And lets not even get into how private schools per pupil are cheaper and produce better outcomes than their public school counterparts. Private schools do not have Unionized work forces, pay, promote and fire based on performance, not seniority, and have absolutely no issue telling a family who doesn’t discipline their child to take them elsewhere and stop wasting the time of every other student.