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>>15047865
>private high schools
It's a carveout of a system that liberals want to see universalized. It's a bit like seeing a scar on otherwise flawless skin.

Seeing people opt out, and knowing that the only people who WILL opt out are the rich since private school costs thousands, means the poor get left behind if it's genuinely better, which liberals consider unfair. It also means that the rich will be spending their money and ensuring improvements go towards the private system, rather than the one everyone can use.

This means the success of private schools is necessarily at the expense of the public system, both in terms of brains and funding of alumni, and of the poor, who can't take advantage. Liberals hate that.

At the college level though, everybody pays money and out of state people pay LOTS equal to private AND public schools, so it's not immediately obvious whether there's any kind of injustice that hurts the poor there.