[quote=goldfish]It is simply impossible to send all the kids to better schools. The solutions are:
(1) Make all schools equally good (or bad), AKA communism.
(2) Choice by merit.
(3) Choice by money.
(4) Choice by lottery.
(5) A mixture of the above.
Back to the core point, if you can afford to send your kids to most desirable private schools, you will probably not live in MM anyway. That is my point. The school performance is an indicator of the neighborhood. Even if you have no kid and don’t plan to have kid, you are still likely to live in an area with people similar to you. If you income can support SFR in CV, you may decide to live in less expensive areas such as 4S. However, you are very unlikely to live in Escondido or San Marcos.
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Just because it’s impossible to make all the schools better, doesn’t mean people have to be stuck in their social-economic wrung without an easier way to advance through education. Through choice, you’ll have competition. Competition is what spawn all the new advancements and improvements. US has one of the best University systems, why not apply that to our K-12.
I have to dispute your assumption. I’m one of those parents who would live in MM and send my kids to private school.