On Mar 6, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Vitaliy wrote: > Nobody argues that the quality of education is better in private > schools I do. My parents did. > and tuition cost is generally half or less of what the public > system spends, per student[2]. Ah. Arizona parochial schools. Where I live, the "most likely" private high school would have cost well over $25000/y (, ); the main advantages seem to have boiled down to the choice of having Japanese as a language, and the opportunity to hang out with rich drug dealers rather than poor drug dealers. We decided it wasn't worth it, all things considered, and will be going to the public school. (of course, as some of my co- workers point out, you pay for being able to send your kids to "good" public schools via higher home prices, not even counting local taxes.) One of the shocking parts of checking out the private high school situation was how many of the private schools cater to one or another special interest. Girls schools, Boys Schools, Christian School, Hebrew Schools, EXTREMELY SMALL schools ("a lot of our students show up sophmore year after they find they can't hack the large public schools." (really - near exact quote from "private school information night.")) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist