> If the affluent were forced to use the public school system you could be damn sure it would have unbelievable funding That's actually one of the things I val

> If the affluent were forced to use the public school system you could be damn sure it would have unbelievable funding That's actually one of the things I value most about the school systems here in semi-rural Iowa. Nobody is Silicon Valley "affluent", but there are no private schools, so the kids from well-off families are in the same classes as the poor kids. In most of the bigger suburbs / cities, there are multiple schools that you go to based on where you live. It basically means the schools are income-segregated, which seems like a great disservice to everyone in my opinion. Most of the kids I met in college who went to those "good schools" had vastly overinflated opinions of themselves. Never met many kids from the "bad schools" because they were too poorly run for the kids to make it to college anyway.