Whenever people try and flex that they can afford to pay for private school I sort of laugh. Because if you were really smart with your money and were educated or wealthy enough, you'd move to an area with great public schools and have your fellow taxpayers subsidize it.
My property taxes are 20% of what I'd pay for private. Yet every family at my kids school is upper middle class (highly involved), just like private, small class sizes, just like private, and 98% of the HS kids go to a 4 year, just like private.
It saves me a ton of money that I of course invest or spend of vacations, or other fun stuff that we get to enjoy in the shorter term (cars, cabins, etc.). Thank you fellow taxpayers!