squeak: It is certainly better they be born, which you acknowledge is the Torah way. And their being born should not be contingent on financial considerations, which we both recognize is the Torah way. And once that is the case, parents should pay, but if that isn’t possible the community bears the burden.
gavra_at_work: I am suggesting that if borh parents ARE working (regardless whether that is ideal – a somewhat separate discussion), that leaves no option of keeping the children home. In any event, no Jewish child should ever be denied a Torah chinuch whether both parents are working or not.
Sending a Jewish child to public school is the quickest way, in my opinion, to *throw* him off the derech.