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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The public schools are the bargain because the entire tax base is paying for each child's education, not just the parents of the children attending the schools.....that's how public goods work..... [/quote]

Exactly! 
The question is a false choice because you have to ADD the cost of public school to the cost of private school.
You are paying for Public School even if you don't send your children there, or even have children for that matter.
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No. It's a false choice because the schools serve two very different markets. In private schools you have middle- and upper-middle class families whose kids, studies show, enter kindergarten ahead, and have higher expectations and test scores. Public schools serve a very diverse market of kids at all levels of preparedness, learning disabilities, english skills, and career goals.

Honestly, you can't see this? [/quote]

Not sure what you are all up in arms about here?

From a purely economic sense - No matter who you are: (1) the cost to a parent sending their child to private school is the portion of your tax dollars that get funneled into public schools PLUS the cost of your private school AND (2) the cost to a parent sending their child to public school is NOWHERE NEAR what it costs the public school system to serve that child.....that parent's tax dollars are pooled with many many many other tax payers who don't have children!  I don't care if your child is the lowest need child in the class - I highly doubt your personal tax contribution alone is covering the cost of your kid....

Also from an economic sense - I do agree that the "average" cost per student is not a relevant comparison to use across public and private schools (or even across one public school to another) because the the public schools are likely to have a more diverse population - some students with very high costs compared to others...but this goes even within public school systems.  Some parts of a county may have more ESOL kids, while another has more middle of the road and another may have a bunch of high flyers...

But in terms of PAYING out - you are never paying what it really costs (the marginal cost) for the public school to take your child and unless you know of some great tax credit available for families who choose not to use the public schools...you are always paying for both public and private when going to private school.

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