Where I grew up public schools were measurably worse than alternatives. Using objective metrics like average number of gang wars in a given year.
Since there's something like 100k public schools in the US, with very different performance and governments in charge, I don't think people here are really in a position to judge someone's parenting choices over the internets.
Also by the way, public universities run about 12k/year, so they may well have their children in public school.
Yeah you raise a good point, I was in a city with generally serviceable schools. Really, I just tend to get frustrated at the belief system that all public schools are awful and any good parent should send their kids to private school. Even when the public option is ok we can't have our kids hanging out with the prole kids.
Since there's something like 100k public schools in the US, with very different performance and governments in charge, I don't think people here are really in a position to judge someone's parenting choices over the internets.
Also by the way, public universities run about 12k/year, so they may well have their children in public school.