The truth is that parents are only paying a small portion of what it costs to fund their child’s education. If your property taxes are $6000 a year only a portion of that goes toward schooling. The median cost of schooling a year per child is $12,000. If you have 3 children you are using $36,000 in the education system and contributing less than $6000. So you can’t truthfully say that parents are paying for their children’s education. At best they are subsidizing it with a small stipend. If the parents were paying for it there would be no need for other citizens to have to pay for it.
I’m not going to begin to argue the “terms” of the communists’ “contract” with the taxpayer.
I was told that my taxes pay for schools. I’m not even in control of that, much less what happens after.
If Joe Schmoe can get some of his tax money back by way of public schools, then that is a very good thing, IMHO.
I think we should all take our money back when we can. If the system breaks (and it is) well, it should break. It is immoral and corrupt.
But blaming the taxpayer is akin to blaming the victim of a daylight mugging.
Maybe it’s $12K in your state, each state varies. Here in my state a large proportion of property taxes go to the schools. It’s broken and will have to get fixed in the sense of no more fedgov interference, and IMO any “public” schools should be controlled and funded very very locally - by town or even smaller.
Of course, things will have to collapse for that to happen.