When I worked for a private school I learned that the parents got a tax deduction for the expense

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4. It gets worse -- public schools have to pay transportation costs for private schools even if they have no buses

The district I worked in was small enough geographically that it was not required to provide transportation to public school students without disabilities.

BUT -- if a kid went to a private school, even if it was across the metro area (places ike St Xavier, Cincinnati Country Day, Summit Country Day in Cincinnati that recruit all over the metropolitan area) -- the school district had two choices share the cost of the bus with a neighboring district and run a route from our two high schools to the private school or reimburse the parents for mileage costs.

Tens or hundreds of dollars to subsidize rich parents, the Catholic church, or some other religious organization affiliated with the private school. We also had to use our tax dollars to pay for the text books used in the private school fo students from our drawing area even if it was much more expensive than the book we were using.