"If you send your kid to private school, you are a bad person"

[TheKentuckian]

75. No they aren't but the option is bad for the many for the benefit of the few.

Who can be blamed for wanting the best for their children? Who doesn't get that there is only so much best to go around particularly when those with the money and influence abandon ship. Once the tiering starts, the ghettoizing is inevitable.

Everybody in the same boat rowing in the same direction gives every child the best shot, don't tell me if upper middle class, rich folks, and politicians kids were in some of these schools that we would see very different outcomes and budgeting.

I don't think they are bad but I am willing to lock them up for truancy if their kids don't report for assignment in public school and keep them locked up until they are forced to by resource depletion.
I'm good with harnessing the instinct to make sure each ones child gets the best shot they can be given productively to make sure all the kids get a good opportunity.