I think you seriously underestimate what the good public schools are teaching. Most people, when surveyed, criticize the school system, but say their child's teacher is wonderful. To some extent the discontent with the public school system is a hyped issue, driven by the media's need to find issues that they can get ratings with.
Very few religious schools take children with disabilities, one of the major financial drains on the public school system. Private schools also refuse to take behavior problems, another drain on public school systems. When the private schools are really shouldering an equal educational burden THEN you can talk about parity of costs. But right now your argument is just silly, considering the different educational missions of the two systems. The public schools must educate all students (in hospitals, in special education classes, in behavioral classes, with adaptive PE, with occupational therapy, with speech classes, with remediation for reading, and on and on and on); the private schools need only take the students they want to take. Oh yeah, it's really honest to compare those two systems. NOT |
