Jersey- of course parents need to make sacrifices. Didn’t you cut and trim for orthodonture, because without it, your kid might have faced an adulthood of a speech impediment or dental pain? Didn’t you sacrifice so your clumsy kid could take dance lessons or gymnastics or karate or whatever so they he/she wouldn’t spend a lifetime being physically awkward? Didn’t you put home improvements on hold so that your kid with the LD’s could do an after school program with intense reading/language help?
That’s what parents do. If you are poor- you can’t, because there’s nothing to cut. If you are middle class- and you can find a way to cut- that’s what you do.
If you choose not to fund your kids education, then that’s your decision. And if your kid had a massive overbite and you chose not to do orthodonture, then that’s your decision as well. Short of a court order because you are putting your kids life at risk- nobody can force you to spend the money.
But our society isn’t predicated on a system where people need a court order to sacrifice financially to make a better life for their kids. Those who can, usually do it willingly.