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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school is a luxury. Not a need. You are off your rocker. [/quote]
This is a different debate.  Again, I understand that most support a system that only allows the very wealthy to attend private school, sprinkled with some lower SES students for diversity purposes, but I don't agree with perpetuating that classist system.[/quote]

I don't understand--all children in the US are entitled to a free education between the ages of 6 and 18 (at a minimum). It's one of the few entitlements in this country. People can choose to spend their money on a private education, but how does the fact that education is expensive and therefore private education is primarily limited to the wealthy make it "classist"? I don't think it's classist that some people drive Mercedes or having bigger homes than me or do their shopping at Whole Foods. They make more money than me and that's how they choose to spend it. Same with private school.

The "classist" issue you should be fighting for is the major discrepancies in quality of public education driven by local funding and the reliance on property taxes, which vary significantly. [/quote]

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