Struggling parents have moved their children from private schools, usually touted as first-class education, to public schools. She was once an Arabic kindergarten teacher, her husband ran a thriving food business, and their three children went to private school. But the past three years, to cut costs, she was forced to move her two boys, now 18 and 15, out of a top-end private school, first to a cheaper school, then to a public school. She knows that in two years, I will have to move her to a public school. For her daughter, a first grader in a public school, Sadaka accepted a job there teaching French, which basically pays for gas.
