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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people who send their kids to private get out of paying the full freight on local taxes public folks can claim THEY are doing what’s needed for the common good.  Until then, the Public parents have no moral superiority to assert.  Everyone is footing the same bill.  [/quote]

Very fair.[/quote]

But the local school loses per pupil allowance no matter if you still pay taxes.[/quote]

That allowance is dedicated for the kid in the public school seat. As such, it should be entirely consumed via the education of the kid.  If the kid isn’t there, the educational expense isnt there either so there is no “loss.”

The tax dollars that are provided for a student who is not in attendance, however, are there and are able to be spent on all the other kids who attend public.

There is a major difference. [/quote]

I think the issue is more about who is bought into supporting public education.  Public services and programs that are used by and available to everyone (e.g. Social Security) have more public support than programs that only serve low-income families.  If high-income families flee public schools they are less likely to support taxes for public schools.    As evidenced by the first post quoted above.[/quote]

The post does not state or imply a lack of support for taxes for public schools.  It notes the difference between taxes and dedicated per student expenditures. [/quote]

My mistake.  Was looking at the wrong quote. That said, I think the likelihood of getting out of paying local property taxes is nonexistent.[/quote]

Of course but my point is lots of people who don't think they should be paying property taxes.  Not good for public education.[/quote]

My point was that that thought is a stretch. Probably an even bigger one in connection with those with the wherewithal to pay 50k per kid per year for private. In fact, I think the public’s probably benefit from NOT having those kinds of people beating down on them from the inside. [/quote]

I actually think massive income inequality is a huge threat to public education.[/quote]

I actually think it is the opposite.  Buffett, Bezos, Larry Ellison and Jobs all went to public.  Zuckerberg went to public for half of high school.

All are or were clearly hell bent on maximizing wealth concentration. [/quote]

Well, given that only 10% of students go to private school, probability would dictate that any given person probably went to public school. Zuckerberg graduated from Exeter, though — one of the most elite high schools in the world.[/quote]

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