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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Point of article:  We should all send our kids to public schools and dumb them down because that is what is inherently fair for society.[/quote]

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Private schools over a certain endowment level should not be considered not-for-profit for tax purposes. Otherwise it's just a way to launder the money of wealthy people. Why should donating money to a private school be considered a charitable donation if the only point of the private school is to educate the children of the people making these "donations"? Is it considered a charitable donation if a parent hires a tutor or turns their home into a little school for their kid? Nope. That's someone taking their income and spending it on their own family and it's taxed as such. And the schools themselves should be taxed as businesses, which is what they are.

We need increased transparency and oversight of college admissions, both public and private.

We also need to do a lot around public schools and social welfare, including addressing systemic racism, but I think that's beyond the scope of the article. The main thing I took from the article is that private schools aren't really serving societal interests, they are just serving the interests of a self-perpetuating elite and as a society, we don't need to be facilitating that activity.[/quote]

Uh, a lot of the schools use their endowment to enable kids of much lesser means to attend their schools. Generally, that is the point.[/quote]

Much lesser means is truly relative in this discussion.  Much lesser usually means kids from families making 150-300K, not families making 50k(except for religious schools).  Very few private schools that cost $45k+ provide aide that covers full tuition, fees, and books, making them out of reach for a great majority of families.  Not to mention their is an entire process that goes along with just applying to attend these schools.  All of which says nothing of the fact that the schools are still small compared to the number of people who could benefit.[/quote]

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