My thought process is the rich kids are already going to private school, where by your own admission various factors present advantages to them. The poorer lef

My thought process is the rich kids are already going to private school, where by your own admission various factors present advantages to them. The poorer left competing at the public schools all have their various challenges and struggles. IMO the best we can do for them is afford them equality of OPPORTUNITY for use of numerical amount of public funds. Johnny gets 10k Billy gets 10k, maybe 20k at most. There's no guarantee you'll get equality of outcome, but at least you got equal shot at the public funds and one poor kid doesn't lose out a huge amount so the other kid gets 5x the money. At some point sure more money is almost always better than less, but we have to remember that comes at the cost of other poor kids. As for lunches... I don't know why those aren't just given to all kids in public school by default. That would make it equal and satisfy the criteria. >Quantifying that is difficult This sounds accurate but I have to point out you've expressed the private schools are finding effective ways to identify disruptors.