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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is a real education?  Why does a real education cost $30,000/year in your world?   Does one have to spend $30,000/year at your child's school to get a "real" education?  Preposterous faulty thinking in my opinion.[/quote]
People like throwing around the $30,000 number and expressing shock that education should cost so much.  But everyone forgets that at local public schools, the average spend is something like $15,000 or more per student, and many would agree that local public schools are underfunded.  So if you want to put it in dollar terms, I think the real question is whether a private school education is twice as good as a public school education (and maybe less than that).  I think for many families, the answer is yes.

Obviously the actual dollars spent by a private school family are much higher, because in addition to paying for private school education, they're also effectively subsidizing all the students in public schools by paying their taxes but not using the public school resources.  But that extra subsidy cost isn't really relevant when you're trying to compare the relative value of two different educations on a dollar-cost basis.[/quote]

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