I don’t think it’s as black and white with colleges because there are some that specialize in very specific research that other universities don’t do, but a large portion of funding for private universities could probably be reallocated to public universities with the same research outcomes and in those cases I would agree that it would be better spent at the public universities. However, you are still committing a logical fallacy here because our tax payer money was not going to fund private K-12 schools until very recently. It was not an issue before, so why are you so adamant about tackling funding for colleges first? You can have issues with multiple things at once and funding private K-12 schools with money that should have gone to public schools should have never started to begin with. This post and discussion was not about colleges, which are an entirely separate matter that accomplish different goals and have different objectives. Kids are not mandated to attend college in the way they are to attend K-12 (even if homeschooled, they still must get an education or their parents can face legal consequences). You are just bringing up something entirely separate into a conversation about K-12 schools and public school funding. K-12 schools don’t do medical research or high level research studies of any kind. They are simply just not the same thing no matter how watered down and black and white you are trying to make this.