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What's obvious to you is factually incorrect. Ask a realtor about whether school quality matters to parents. Wealthy parents choose wealthy neighborhoods where their kids go to school with other wealthy kids.
My dad taught at a poor school. All the kids there were from poor families. All the rich kids went to a different school.
My main point is wealthy parents don't understand the value of their children interacting with poor people.
That may be true, but they don't want that for their kids and they pay to avoid it.
I agree that parents have separated public schools into rich ones and poor ones; that's part of the problem I'm trying to describe. Wealthy parents want their kids around other wealthy families, not because it's a good idea, but because they don't understand social development.
But you're overgeneralizing. There are plenty of places in America where even the rich schools have some poor families.
Lots of homeschool parents socialize across class too, especially those who organize their social lives around a church.
If you put your kid in public school, it's going to interact with poor families. If you homeschool it, it's not. I'm sorry but that's just really obvious to me, given my experience. I guess that's where we'll agree to disagree.
My main point is wealthy parents don't understand the value of their children interacting with poor people.