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Aound here private schools run anywhere from $20,000 to $35,000 a year
and the systems that spent the most per pupil spend less than $7,000. If
the taxpayers give coupons for private schools rather than fund the
public schools taxes would have to go up about $20,000 per student. Are
you going to vote for that tax increase?

I am not sure that the cost of private schools will remain as high if
all public schools were gradually converted into private schools. We
would also not be paying taxes to support public schools in the new
system.

My fear is that, instead, kids would be going to schools sponsored by
Starbuck's or McDonald's, and they'd learn all about how tasty coffee or
french fries are. The kids at the school down the road from us can't sell
bottled water for fundraisers because of a noncompetition clause in the
school's contract with Pepsi.

Maybe Wal-Mart could sponsor a school so the kids could learn all about lead
poisoning.

-c