Recognizing the legitimate concerns about the article tone, it’s worth mentioning another point not mentioned in the article: when kids get older, my experience

Recognizing the legitimate concerns about the article tone, it’s worth mentioning another point not mentioned in the article: when kids get older, my experience is that public schools in “fancy” neighborhoods often have unpaid additional staffing from stay at home parents. Not so much teaching, but auxiliary roles. This is an unrenumerated public good that benefits many children. A underreported correlate of school quality seems to be the available fraction of non-working parents for these roles.) (Families at the fancy private schools just pay extra for that stuff. They also seem to typically have one stay at home parent, but also nannies, maids, etc.)