>From: "Mitchell, Jerry (3337)" <Jerry.Mitchell@esavio.com>
>Private education isn't affordable for everyone at this time because:
>
>1. You already are paying for it through taxes, therefore you don't have it
>to put to private schools.
>2. If private schools were the norm, there would be many grades of schools,
>from the ivy league expensive schools to the moderate but adequate
>"wal-mart" versions that would carry most the students. Considering
>economies of scales, I would estimate that if public schools went away, and
>after the market stabilized in a few years, your taxes may drop 10-15
>percent (in theory) and the cost of the average private school to be about
>2k-5k per year. IMOHO. Pretty reasonable when you factor that price being
>able to be paid over the entire year and with your increase of income from
>lower taxes.
>
>This sound too far off base to any of you supply siders?
$5K per year? Maybe. $2K per year? No way. Come September I'll be paying
$8,500 for a year's worth of a 1st grade education (and that's one of the
cheapest schools I could find in the entire county). Even at that the
school is constantly griping the entire year that they don't have enough to
pay the teachers a decent wage, and they're constantly asking for donations
and help with fundraisers all year long.
An unsubsidized $5K per year elementary school education is probably going
to buy you a classroom where kids outnumber teachers by 40 to 1, and a
teacher who is earning barely enough to stay above the poverty line.
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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