Then I realized that, either way, you don't discuss the law with people who talk like that, you simply invoke the law and that's that. One, to educate every child, regardless of family finances, makes a nation strong. Secondly, public schools, unlike private ones, must accept any student, regardless of special needs. This did not fly with me, but I can only vaguely pin down why. They will get an equitable education, to be sure, though not a perfect education.
Nobody gets that, even at a private school.
He hadn't looked at it that way. You see, the most effective way to get anything is to make sure that what's fair for one is fair for all. This is particularly true for religious liberty. But he seemed interested only in getting a leg up. I let that one go.