<p>GMTplus7 wrote…“As for affluent folk in your town opting to send their kids to the local public school, it likely has more to do with the fact that they have the option to send their kids to a high-quality public school that are “good enough”, than because of ideology about public v. private schooling. Towns tend to be less socio-economically checkerboarded than cities— you do not find the extremes of welfare families living within spitting distance of the 1%. As more uniformly affluent neighborhoods in towns have a fat tax base, they tend to have higher quality public schools. In cities with extreme income disparities, the affluent may pay the bulk of the property taxes, but they do not send their kids to the local public school if the school is not a selective one.”</p>
<p>This is spot on with my experience here in NYC and the suburbs</p>
<p>Btw I tried putting it in quote box but couldn’t figure out how to do it :)</p>