My only interest lays in outcomes for public schools. i don't care about the deduction, just the return of a two tiered education system as an ideal. its the pits, and destroys the tradition of a fair go in the case of the disadvantaged students i mention. these kids have parents who don't pay tax anyway, and those who do drink and gamble the rest (with admirable exceptions).  to deny these children is elitist and smacks of something foul-smelling.