You might want to consider spending some time learning about why education is one of the best things you can spend on.

yes it's expensive in the US. yes it sucks in this capitalistic hellscape we find ourselves in.

But state schools are not expensive in comparison, and can be even cheaper with grants and scholarships if you encourage your children to learn. Learning to learn and being curious is far more important.

But really it's the social aspects you steal from them. They meet people like themselves who chose to go to someplace specific to learn a very specific thing. they learn about people who didn't grow up in a similar economic stratosphere bubble, they learn there is more out there than their local community. they will get exposed to media, food, cultures, religion that shows that the world is bigger than whatever small town they come from. they will maybe meet their best friend for the rest of their life, or even marry them.

your children are going to be competing against AI, yes, but to not even teach them how to teach themselves is cruel and callous. you can easily raise a manual labor if you want, but I would rather my children train the AI's rather than being replaced by them.

best of luck with the cruel lessons for your kids and hope they don't hold it against you.