I’m in the same boat, pay a crapload of property taxes to live in a decent neighborhood with good schools, but it seems like a no-brainer that I’d prefer to have my taxes going to a charter or private school that is actually trying to educate kids than a union-controlled, dogma-factory run by Democrat/bureaucrats. I would also invite you to consider tha the teacher’s unions are the number one source of funding for the Democratic Party. That’s what your taxes are currently going towards.
If you’ve seen my posts over the years, I’ve maintained that the Democratic Party is merely the political arm of the teachers’ unions. Remember early in his presidency when Otoken would constantly harp about hiring new teachers? They have a perfect arrangement: commissars in every district, feeding on the occupied territory via taxes, using those taxes to strangle taxpayers even further.
My issue isn’t with charter schools; it is with vouchers that put gibsmedats in private schools while the people who pay for it are forced to use the regular public schools (with unionized teachers). Here in NJ you pay a crapload of property taxes to live in areas that aren’t even decent - just physically secure.