We send our girls to a private school. The cost (full cost) for tuition for non church members is under $5,000. If they went to public school, the “cost” to taxpayers is $10K as a floor.
And the local school district has mailers and adds saying that private schools and homeschoolers are “Stealing” money from the district.
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