>I say this because when you say "...and you can't educate high performing kids in public school." you are without any doubt completely and totally wrong. You'

>I say this because when you say "...and you can't educate high performing kids in public school." you are without any doubt completely and totally wrong. You're going to find exceptions if you take any statement as an absolute. >Any school can be a great place for any child. Could be. But the are not presently. > Education, dollar for dollar, is by far the most important thing you can spend money on as a society or democracy. I 100% agree. >So not fighting for great public schools like the one my wife went to is just ... sad. I think we should, we need to be fighting for those kinds of schools. I simply can't afford wait around for that shift to yield results. And, yes, there are some pretty wacky collectives and homeschoolers. You'd be surprised how hard it is to find course material without some sort of weird agenda baked in. But it is just wrong to paint all of them with that brush. >Great public schools are worth fighting for, Yep. >they are worth battling entrenched unions and politicians for, Agreed. > they are worth sending your kids to. Nope. That's where you lose me. What good is it for me to throw my kids into a cesspool? Will that get it cleaned up any faster? No, sorry, I'm not going to turn my kids into martyrs for what little political leverage having them in a regular public school might give me. Like you said, education is the most important thing. We are starting to see some change in public schools. I don't think it is an accident that we are seeing that change now that they have real competition. What you are asking for is a return to a broken status quo in trade for a vague hope that they get their shit together after decades of decline. We can simultaneously fight for better public schools and educate our high performers to the best of their ability.