$1000/year sounds awfully low for property taxes. You don't think the local government is going to spend much more than that to educate their 5 year-old for that same year? Even the cheapest school districts spend several thou a year per kid unless they wanted to use volunteer teachers in an unheated tent.
We're talking about a house for $40-50k. Schools in PA are paid for by a combination of property taxes and a local wage tax and a state subsidy from other tax sources, including state income tax. So it wouldn't be just their $1000 tax going to pay for the school.
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We are at $1800.00 here in Drums PA ( 1 acre, Bi-Level house). The locals complain that the taxes are high. Hubby and me laugh because we come from Westchester County NY (Yonkers).
Considering that every home and landowner pays property taxes whether they have kids or not, or the kids go to public school or not, your statement isn't sensible.
And we're not even touching the incredible waste of money in the school system, nor the crap they shovel.