Why would this be any different than a right to, say, health care? Why even pay for k-12?
Thus ITT Tech.
and a nation paying highly unreasonable and ballooning sums of money so that a functional literate adult can obtain an education that rarely leads to 10x better outcomes
You can pay for private K-12, or "pay up" and move to a more expensive school district (read: taxes) which would theoretically give you a better education.
School districts have problems with people claiming grandparent's home addresses to attend a better school, and it happens across the country.