10. Socialization ? getting shoved up against the lockers and frisked for lunch money teaches them how to deal with bullies.
9. They'll learn entrepreneurship by going door-to-door money grubbing with chintzy wrapping paper.
8. Fighting over homework every night really brings you together as a family.
7. Free lunch.
6. Free registered nurse to administer your son's Ritalin.
5. Your teenage son will kick that cocaine habit when his younger sister turns him into the DARE cop.
4. They'll learn independence by having to break the hermetic seals on the highly-processed-packaged-food-product lunch all by themselves.
3. You won't have to worry about dealing with your embarrassment while explaining "the birds and the bees."
2. Free tuition helps make that boat payment every month.
And the top reason to send your kids to government school is...