[nitrogen]

Everyone advocating for forced abolition of private schools and high-wealth public districts needs to read this thread. Hits too close to home.

Bullying and peer pressure cause serious harm, not just emotionally but economically when good kids drop out of society. These harms would be magnified if kids who don't fit in with the crowd had even fewer options to escape.

[rtpg]

> These harms would be magnified if kids who don't fit in with the crowd had even fewer options to escape.

The idea isn't to just get rid of private schools, but to take money that goes into that and finance better public education (which can still include ways for people to move around if needed!)

Having a separate world for the rich means that kids who "don't fit in with the crowd" but don't have wealthy parents won't have any way out.

In an alternate world where more money is invested in the public system, having wealth would no longer be a necessary requirement for having access to alternatives.

[dragonwriter]

> Bullying and peer pressure cause serious harm, not just emotionally but economically when good kids drop out of society. These harms would be magnified if kids who don't fit in with the crowd had even fewer options to escape.

That's perhaps a good argument for having smaller free-and-equally-funded public schools with more within any given radius of every residence, with policies that leverage that to provide greater permitted and practical choice for students/parents independent of wealth, but unless freedom from bullying and peer pressure is desired to be gated by wealth I don't see how it opposes, in any way, abolition of either private schools or public districts with superior funding because the local residents are richer.