Quote Originally Posted by econ21
I've never understood the left-wing hang up about personal use of private education - or the charges of hypocrisy that go with it. Sending your child to a good school does not seem much different from feeding them well or giving them a PS3 or an inheritance or whatever. It does not mean one can't support state redistribution or state-funding of education, but to expect a private individual to forebear some activity when the redistributive impact would be effectively zero seems strange.
What I've never quite understood is where this idea that "the Left" was inherently against things like private education (provided there is a decent public education system as well of course) originates from in the first place...

Well, I see similar assumptions a lot in the rhetoric of posters of certain political leanings around here, but I'm personally kinda short of empirical evidence of such attitudes having any meaningful currency among their supposed adherents.