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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real question is whether the privates could do as well or better, using the same funds and their current approach to education, with the same pool of students.

As a big supporter of private education, I would like to think so, but it has never been tried. And I admit fully that the key to private schools success likely lie with whom they admit. The sort of parents who choses private school rear the sort of child who will do better in any circumstance: the parent who values education (or at least 'achievement') and is proactive in their parenting. 
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I get so tired of this view that some people "value" education.  Some parents may have more time and resources available to support their children's education.  They may have more skills for doing so.  But parents across the economic spectrum value their children's education.  [/quote]

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Where did I imply that valuing education was determined by economic status?

My point is that we don't know if private schools would do a better job educating kids with relatively neglectful or less educationally-mindful parents, because in no case have the kids of those parents been placed in private school in significant numbers.[/quote]

There are plenty of parents who choose private schools because it gives Dad bragging rights at the law firm, or let's Mom not feel guilty about ignoring her kid.  [/quote]

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