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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there's something to be said about class size in high school. If the graduating class is 500 kids, and 80% of them are taking at least 1 AP class, well, in fact there may be more rigour and competition in a public than some privates. I'd certainly expect that at Whitman or Wooton. My understanding is most of the graduating class sizes at large privates is far less than that.

With that being said, paying for private education at the secondary level is similar to the rationale of paying for Ivy's when a good state public might offer very similar courses/standards - you are not paying for the courses, curriculum, or teachers - you are paying for connections and alumni networks.

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It’s a bit different for private college where star professors and Nobel Laureates are clustered at Ivies rather than state schools because salaries and research budgets  are so much higher.  But for private school teachers they actually make less $ than their private school counterparts a lot of the time.[/quote]

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