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To: nihil who wrote (55237)	9/14/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

Actually the link you posted was to Georgetown Prep., which costs about $25,000 a year each for the boarding school, and $15,000 for day school. It would also be an hour drive each way to drop the kids off, and an hour drive each way to pick them up, because I want the kids home, where I can help them with their homework and keep an eye on them. But, most importantly, I don't believe it would really be a better education. Every one of the people I know who put their kids in private schools did so for disciplinary reasons, either because the kid was a discipline problem, or because the other kids in public school were disciplinary problems. No doubt there are prople with other motivations, but I don't know any of them. Ben isn't a discipline problem, especially. We know a kid who goes to Georgetown Prep, he's really nuts. He's always threatening to kill his mother. Back in the old days, people put their kids in private schools to get them a better education. In a wealthy community committed to public education, the private schools can't compete because they don't have the funding.