The richest kids already go to private school.
Maybe with an extra $10,500 to use, some middle or upper-middle families can afford private school.
Who does that leave in the public schools?
Realistically, and statistically, the poorest kids do worse than their wealthier peers on every metric that we use to grade schools. Attendance, test scores, discipline records, etc etc. The reasons why are many, and I don't want to get any further into politics, but the numbers are the numbers.
If you take the top-performing kids out of the school and you're left with only the low performers, now the public school looks/is even worse. The public starts yelling. The politicians start posturing. TEA yanks funding or takes over the district and it spirals. Charter schools start sprouting.
Dogs and cats, living together...
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