If middle class kids go to public schools, the public schools will be adequately funded. If middle class kids go to private schools, the public schools will be starved.In my day, a lot of US govt officials sent their kids to public schools. My dad was in a sub-cabinet level post, and I went to the local school where we lived in the country, about thirty miles from DC. The biggest classes were vocational agriculture, vocational auto-body shop, vocational cosmetology, and vocational dry-cleaning. There was one academic class, mostly kids of government executives. I was able to take four years of Latin, five years of French, and mathematics through beginning calculus. I’m glad I went to a public school. The private school kids I met later on when I went to college seemed to have a very narrow view of life.
If middle class kids go to public schools, the public schools will be adequately funded. If middle class kids go to private schools, the public schools will be starved.In my day, a lot of US govt officials sent their kids to public schools. My dad was in a sub-cabinet level post, and I went to the local school where we lived in the country, about thirty miles from DC. The biggest classes were vocational agriculture, vocational auto-body shop, vocational cosmetology, and vocational dry-cleaning. There was one academic class, mostly kids of government executives. I was able to take four years of Latin, five years of French, and mathematics through beginning calculus. I’m glad I went to a public school. The private school kids I met later on when I went to college seemed to have a very narrow view of life.