DMG
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To a point and maybe your area is different, but I'm married to someone who can actually teach and I can tell you private schools were not even on the radar for consideration when she was teaching middle school and elementary school. Same for her friends and colleagues. Some schools in a difficult area paid more than those in affluent neighborhoods, but both paid much better than local private schools.
According to people I knew teaching in the southern part of the state here, it was a similar situation. Generally better pay and better benefits at public schools, and there are plenty of "good" public schools where teachers have a very minimal amount of bs and problem kids to deal with.
If their parents are already not paying taxes(under the poverty line), and only those who have kids going to school are paying for schools, then who pays for the poor kids to go to school when there are no public schools? Where do those "vouchers" come from?
The teachers union has to be a factor