I recently talked with my father about his local taxes… how the amount allocated to schools has jumped from 35% or so when he first bought the house to now it’s 55%. Then you have the much higher than inflation rate it’s gone up year to year. I’d bet the schools I went to produce no better students than when I attended. They do make them wear uniforms now though. I’m sure gang colors were a big problem in Quinton, NJ.

The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in the State between the ages of five and eighteen years.

Which as been BROADLY interpreted, along with FAPE and IDEA at the federal level, to mean kids have an inalienable right to a free and public education. Funny enough we also have to bus them there according to the state constitution.
I got in trouble for putting this up on my wall.
There is a lot of legislature standing in the way of abolishing a school system at the state level, but i think it would be most beneficial. You could take that property tax money and put it into the education of your kids in a school corresponding to their academic needs. For example, your kid thinks sitting in a desk working out problems is BS so we teach him how to be a hot tar roofer until he’s so hot and sweaty he’s begging for that desk. Or until he’s like, “Damn I’m pretty good at this, if I gain enough capital I could start my own crew doing this stuff.”