I am very skeptical of that view. Nicer public schools get money in the form of parental fundraising. At my kid's elementary school in a big town on the west co

I am very skeptical of that view. Nicer public schools get money in the form of parental fundraising. At my kid's elementary school in a big town on the west coast - not even in California, we raised > 500k every 2 years; poor schools probably didn't have an event where the members of the programmer class dropped a few $k each. This is just the latest way to help your kids.