Here in NJ we don’t have “free education”; our public school taxes (de facto tuition) are thousands of dollars annually, and eat up money that could be used for a private education or saved to make homeschooling economically feasible. Don’t take my word for it; look at the flight of taxpayers from NJ and the collapse of our private education network here. My town in NJ had six Catholic schools when I was born; all six are closed a few decades later. Anyone financially comfortable enough to those tuitions (or could keep a parent home for homeschooling) would never live here; they’d instead opt for a safer area with more Americans around.
Yea, I’ve heard the stories from there. It was best put by simply stating that every producing family has to provide for two families, themselves and some deadbeat family in Newark (or similar city).
...crappy, and Christie doesn’t seem to be able (or more likely want) to do a thing about it.