While I agree with you that my tax money should fund MY kids' education, I disagree with your affording porperty taxes in a great district will equal a good education. It does go back to parental involvement though. IF that parents would make sure their kids got up every morning and actually walked through the school doors at 8 AM, and IF the parents would make sure their kids don't act like wild animals during class, and IF parents discussed their homework every night, and IF parents would make sure their kids were asleep at a decent hour, and IF parents stayed home and were good role models for their kids, and IF parents just CARED then it wouldn't matter how many $$$ were shuffled into or out of a particular school.
But no, parents are too selfish with their own sorry lives to bother raising good kids who value an education. Some true examples - An 11 year old was left to run wild and was caught smoking dope and having sex with an older male on school property. Another family thinks nothing of going out until closing time on Thursday nights. They argue they're good parents because they take their kids with them, but can't comprehend that kids who don't get home until 2 AM simply can't pass Friday morning tests and wonder why each child is failing. Another kid is so screwed up because of the parent's dope parties. Several in special ed are there because their moms cared more about drugs than their pregnancies. The formative years are before they start school, so who is in charge of them at that age?