You do get a benefit from having good schools in your area, even if you don't have kids.

Society benefits from having an educated populace, and your property values are higher if the schools are better.

I don't use the public school system (my youngest child has been homeschooled his whole 14 years). Yet, on Tuesday I'm voting for a millage increase to build a new high school in my town. Good schools make a good community, and I don't resent paying the taxes for it at all. (I resented it a little when I lived in Memphis and the taxes were 1000% more than here, and the schools were horrible! But I didn't use them, either.)

Karen