Our church holds a drive every semester for school supplies.
Many of us save the coupons from products for schools and give to local teachers we know.
We have not had a student in a local school for 3+ decades, and I tell the whining parents, they get to pay for their kids. For 3+ decades, our state/federal income taxes, state/local sales taxes and property taxes send a lot of bucks to our local school district.
Our grand kids went to and some still go to private junior and high schools and not a dime of public school money has been spent on them since they got in Junior high.
One was recently turned down by our California Universities because she made 2 b’s and the rest A’s in spite of gradation with highest honors at a prestigious private high school. She was accepted at every out of state school where she applied. She was accepted at a prestigious East Coast University with an excellent partial scholarship. Yet her parents, aunts/uncles and grandparents/us have paid a lot of local, state and federal taxes that illegals get in our colleges when they are accepted.
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.