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To: y2kate who wrote (79)	8/14/2000 3:14:14 PM
From: freeus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 666

Nonsense: give the bureaucrats more of our money to waste? Public schools should be eliminated: private schools would spring up everywhere, at all tuition levels. The best schools are homeschools anyway: give Americans back their own money so one parent can stay home and homeschool. Voila! save money, save children. Freeus

To: y2kate who wrote (79)	8/14/2000 3:19:54 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 666

By your own calculations, it costs $5.55 per student per day for the teacher and $43.30 per student per day for the overhead. You reinforce c. horn's point.

To: y2kate who wrote (79)	8/14/2000 4:10:16 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 666

So that's $866.00 per child per month, or about $40.00 per child per day assuming 20 days of school per month. You can't get decent child care for $40.00 a day, but we're not through. Subtract overhead- administrative and grounds/building maintenance costs, modest suport staff salaries, and you're probably looking at $20.00 per day. $20 per day per student for overhead? So for a school with say 1000 students the cost for admin staff and building maintaince (you counted lunch and transportation, and books, computers and other learning materials in a seperate categories) you are talking about close to $4 mil/year? Sounds to me like maybe the admin staff could be cut, esp since your figure for teachers was only 1/4 of that. I'm not saying that the school's costs overall nessiarily need to be cut, but the costs have increased greatly in the last couple of decades (after adjustment for inflation) without the quality going up. Perhaps with less burocracy that money could be spent on trying to increase the quality of education provided. Tim