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Originally posted by baltassoc
So I found this cite for the proposition:
- Private schools also achieve these results with fewer resources. According to the Department of Education, the average cost nationwide of all private K-8 private and parochial school tuition is $2,300, almost a third the average public school cost of $6,800.
http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/rese...constamend.cfm
Of course, this essay doesn't give a cite for the data, and follows with this completely absurd statement, so I'm still taking it with a grain of salt:
- America has no shortage of gifted teachers or eager students.
And I'd note that the statistic compares apples to oranges. It's comparing tuition on one hand against cost of education on the other.
If significant numbers start moving to private schools, those tuition costs are going to go up, because despite assertions to the contrary, there is a shortage of gifted teachers in America, and private schools will have to compete more for that talent. And their endowments will be stretched more to cover more students.
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Is the "cost" of parochial school the tuition cost, or the actual cost? I think that parochial schools frequently get quite a bit of financial help, and probably also administration and teaching help, from the churches with which they are associated. And, I'm pretty sure that to the extent the teachers are nuns or what have you, and they live in church housing, they don't have imputed income so you don't have to pay them enough to cover the costs of the housing and the taxes on the amounts that they pay for housing/food.
It's just not apples/oranges.
On second thought, I am not up for this conversation either. Club, go ahead, say whatever uninformed, un-thought-through crap you want, and then as a bonus you can take the silence of balt and me as assent.
You'll be deluded and wrong, but probably happier.
