"Maxwell" wrote in message


Well John, my point was that per semester hour the cost was almost
comparable to a state university. But let's look at it your way as
well.

"My way" is skeptical of public education (despite [because of?] my being a
product of it).

Depending on how you spin it from there, at 6 hours a day 22 days a
month - the class room would yield a little better than $17,500 a
month. Now granted, you have to maintain the classroom and teacher
all year long. But at $160,000 a year, you should be able to afford a
little downtime.

OK. My original point was to highlight the delta between public and private
education expenditure per student. Most folks seem to consider private
education better than public. Perhaps the price reflects that and "you get
what you pay for".

Still, I'm not convinced the current public school system simply needs more
money to do its job. I like the idea of competition among schools. I also
like the idea of those folks using the system paying for the system. I'm not
thrilled with the idea that (in my county, anyway) nearly 70% of my property
taxes go to pay for a school system I no longer use.

Oh well. I guess I should just suck it up and buy the line that better
schools improve my property value, right? (Which of course means I pay more
taxes in a vicious cycle.)

Regardless, the major problem with public education as I see it (from having
just put my son through 12+ years of public schooling) is lack of
involvement by the parents.

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