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outrageously false. over $370,000,000,000 (370 billion) a year is spent in the U.S. on public education for grades K-12. divide that by about 45 million students equals more than $8200 a year per child. Private school cost per child can be anywhere from 3 to 8 grand depending on the quality of the education you're going for. At the cheapest, you might be able to pull off $2500 to home-school a kid at the elementary grade level. Obviously most public schools are basically warehousing kids and are very ineffective at giving kids a decent education when compared to a private school at the same price. There's just no such thing as a free lunch.

Private schools will offer just as good an education as you're willing to buy. They vary wildly from a half-decent education not much different from public schooling to a college-quality experience. In private schools, the instructers have to actually please a customer, or they'll take their business elsewhere. In public school, the student is left without options, and has to take whatever education the state has to offer, gritting his teeth. When you privatize education, more people will be able to afford to send their kids to a place where they can really learn. I won't argue that the poor will have to rely on charity, but I think scholarships would get funds alot more quickly for elementary and secondary school kids. They're cuter than college kids.

when it comes to numbers and statistics, it's usually not hard to find the right data to prove your ideology, whatever that may be. All you can do is look at it all objectively and decide for yourself.

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I've always thought that the proof was in the difference between a High school diploma/ged, and a college degree. The public school system ends at 12th grade. Colleges are, I think, mostly private instittions, relying on tuitions for their funding. The fact that most jobs out there require a college degree shows that the public school system isn't providing the needed skills to make it in the real world. Private education is needed, and students get it by going to college. Therefore, the job market obvioulsy prefers private education to public schools. That should be all the proof anyone needs, assumng I'm right about this, of course.

Private education is better.

While on the topic of private education, I'd like to take a moment to address the termination of the D.C. school voucher program, which allowed students from failing schools to attend a private school instead, usually for much less than it would cost to send the same student through public school. In response, I would suggest a private voucher program, where donations are used instead of taxpayer money. It would work on the same premise as a private scholarship, supported by companies and business, but it would not be tied to grades like those are, because in elementery or middle school, one hasn't had much opportunity to make those grades, and in a school that fails to teach, one probably could not get good grades anyway. I suppose selection would have to be based on lottery, like the pervious voucher program was. After that, grades could be used to determine whether or not to continue the scholarship.