I have several comments regarding this post on Public Education wherein I sort of laughed at the problems the rich were having getting accepted to local public schools. The gist of the counter arguments are well taken. Summing them up:

We don't apologize for working our butts off to become successful and while at it, very well off. Whenever I see remarks about the "working man" I scoff because my (our) husband works harder and longer than any miner, factory worker, or college professor and he deserves any and all compensation he can get.

And we pay a ton of property taxes, more than enough to educate six kids and in some cases twenty or thirty. These taxes are supposed to go to education, but they do not. Instead they go for minority group pseudo education, low achiever education, and inflated public school teacher salaries. Yes, I own a (one to two million dollar) home or condo and I pay roughly (between sixty and two hundred thousand dollars) per year in property taxes plus special assessments, I'm also taxed extra for water and so on so that the "poor" can enjoy free services on my dime.

I pay the taxes for education and now I'm denied access to that education. You're dam right I'm going to do what I can to get what I pay for.

New York tax rate on homes is $65 per thousand dollar valuation which means that if you have a $1million home you will pay sixty five thousand dollars plus whatever special assessments are levied. The tax puts home ownership out of the reach of most people.