Joseph…..
A CT town has both Jewish and Christian religious day schools, as well as public schools. The town’s residents pay property tax. That tax pays for running the public schools and providing bus service, school nurses, secular textbooks, special education services. Physical Education services, health department inspection and certification of the cafeterias, police and fire protection.
Every student in the public schools is a RESIDENT of the town and is funded by townspeople. Many of the students in the religious schools (more than 70% in the Jewish day school) are not town residents. They receive these town funded services, but their families pay no taxes to support the town. They pay in the towns where they live.
If we had a state run education system and a state school tax, instead of locally property tax to fund this, the burden would be shared equally on all state residents.