I agree with you, but I could easily convince myself otherwise with the right context or motivation.

> Well funded public education is a bedrock of fair equal society

First we have to decide what a fair equal society is, and then decide that this is what we want, and then demonstrate that spending on public education helps to achieve this.

People I've spoken to about education who do not see it as I do will disagree with me on all three points.

Colin Powell [valued][1] (paywall) his public school education.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221108214853/https://www.wsj.c...