Public schools are basically just going to become a lower class school system. It didn't have to be this way, and I wish it wasn't (I went to public schools wit

Public schools are basically just going to become a lower class school system. It didn't have to be this way, and I wish it wasn't (I went to public schools with a year stint in a private one and I highly attribute my time in public schools as shaping the better parts of my character) but the pandemic has made the "school choice" advocates the ultimate winners of the debate given how we set things up with public schools. It turns out, by investing so heavily in a system with centralized power structures and highly correlated disincentives against our children, we ultimately would pay profound costs when those cross-cutting incentives broke against our kids. Private schools have been open to varying degrees, and the kids have not been left behind. Meanwhile, public school kids are permanently scarred many with mental health issues and their educational and developmental growth stunted. It doesn't take a genius parent to look at this and the trajectory and do literally everything possible to prevent their children from entering this system while it implodes.