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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If X is free and Y costs $15000 or more each year (so at least $150,000 over a school lifetime and possibly twice that), and you choose Y, then either you are a fool OR you are making a rational judgment that Y is worth $150,000 more than X.  You are making a judgment that Y is better than X (for your child, at least).

You can limit your judgment to "Y is better than X ... FOR MY CHILD" -- of course we are ALL referring to our own children as we make those judgments.  There's nothing special about that limitation.  You have a choice... you are choosing Y over X.  Either you are rational b/c Y is better or you are irrational b/c they are equivalent or X is better.

The analogy to choosing a marriage partner doesn't hold b/c (a) you don't have to marry (whereas [b]you do have to send your child to school[/b]), and (b) there isn't a financial cost to choosing one person over another, and (c) you are typically limited to one public school choice vs. private, but you are not limited to one spouse choice vs. one you have to pay for (unless you are looking for prostitutes).[/quote]

You could home school and many people do. Unfortunately, they get hate from both the public school and private school families.[/quote]

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