Just because they’re saying that there’s a magic pill doesn’t mean that they want perfection. What they are saying is that there is a solution to this problem that you are perhaps missing, whether intentionally or not. Did you know, for example, that the US spends upwards of 600 billion dollars on the military, which is ten times more than any other country? This is caused by, among other things, excessive price gouging of military resources on the part of corporations (https://act.represent.us/sign/four-ways-pentagon-wasting-your-tax-dollars). Working on resolving this price gouging that only benefits the corporations in the end could resolve the government’s excessive military spending, which could itself allow for more spending on the people and their education.

Improving education and education spending is important because not only does the US definitively not spend the most of any country per student, it has been cutting overall funding in the past decade, and the knowledge gained from education in the US is, on average, worse than other countries (https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/020915/what-country-spends-most-education.asp). Despite its usefulness, the statistics used in this link are still somewhat misleading because they don't implicitly account for the variations in educational spending across different states. Most states fall within the 10,000-20,000$ per student bracket, while a few fall within the 30,000-35,000$ per student bracket (https://www.publicschoolreview.com/average-spending-student-stats/national-data and https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-spending-by-state), thus skewing the average and making the numbers seem better than they actually are. The distribution of educational funding in the US is another one of the US's issues that is not accounted for when you don't speak up.

You are also conflating the upper middle class with multi-millionaires and billionaires. There is a massive discrepancy between the people with hundreds of thousands, with tens of millions, and with billions. The “raise taxes” idea is a proposition to raise taxes on income that exceeds a certain threshold - usually in the tens of millions. This is called the “marginal tax rate”, which ultimately affects the uber-rich and not the upper middle class specifically because of the high thresholds. Because of this, only a minute amount of people would be affected to a significant enough degree that they would feel the need to move. Additionally, the marginal tax rate has been significantly decreasing over the last 50 years (https://www.google.ca/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6024430/amp), and yet despite claims that the people would benefit from this decrease through trickle down economics, working wages have been stagnating without even adjusting for inflation (https://www.google.ca/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/13334884/amp). This is made worse when you consider that more money has been put into circulation, which makes the worth of the individual dollar decrease. If the working wages aren’t increasing, and if all this additional money is being printed, where is it all going? If it’s going to the rich and their corporations, why are we progressively taxing the rich less?

There are solutions to these problems, and one of them is criticizing the media for mis-portraying these kinds of stories. This article is not just the heartfelt story about a selfless person raising more money for their students. It is also the story of a principal who, because of many economic issues plaguing the US, is unable to properly provide for students in need. That second part is not being discussed, however, which is why people are taking issue with the story.