Our grand kids were sent to good private schools from their 8th grade on. Relatives on both sides helped to pay for their tuition.
A sibling is doing the same with her grand kids.
My wife’s siblings are helping their grand kids.
Our youngest son dropped out of high school in his senior year and got his GED diploma via the night classes and attended a great trade school. People who hired him said that someone getting a GED and attending a good trade school carried more weight that a mass production high diploma and BS degree in college.
So, we have been paying extra for our younger relatives to not attend a Government B$ diploma high school for decades.
Private schools were taken over during Common Core.
They even got Texas simply by renaming it.
https://northtxcouncil.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/communism-education-in-texas-aka-cscope-the-hidden-common-core-standards/