I actually agree with you here except I would bet Clairton teachers are about at the same level as anywhere else.
What you are saying is the town's demographics are causing the failing school.....and by failing I assume you are meaning low standardized test schools, graduation rates, percentage of students going to college, etc. I agree, its demographics, not "the school."
So you're solution is to have taxpayers pay to send those kids to Serra Catholic. One of my solutions is to allow them to attend TJ. Why not just merge Clairton with TJ or EF? Ironically, the TJ school district was borne out of secession from Clairton for racist reasons.
The PA Public school system works extraordinarily well in districts that have good demographics. So why not merge some of these districts together? Do we really need 5 school districts in Greene County? Does Clairton need its own school district of 30 kids per grade? Should Fayette County have 7 school districts? How about 2?
Anyone who thinks Serra Catholic, with teachers making $25K would provide a better education than TJ or EF is crazy. If you really cared about those kids from Clairton, you'd want them going to TJ or EF....or bus them further away to a USC for example. But you dont. You just want to weaken the teachers union because you have a weird obsessive hatred of unions. But that's fine. You're allowed to be anti-union. But just don't masquerade like you care about Clairton kids and the only way to help them is for us to pay to send them to a private school.