On May 6, 8:41=A0am, "Donna Metler" <dmmet...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Werner" <whetz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
=2E..
> That is, private schools truly are Lake Woebegon, where all children are
> above average. Vouchers will do one of two things. Either it will
accelera=
te
> this affect, because if private schools are allowed to keep their
admissio=
ns
> criteria, they'll =A0then be able to just take the top, say, 20% instead
o=
f
> the top 40%, or they'll lose many of the reasons parents want to send
them=
> there.
>
The converse is also the case. If admissions criteria are effectively
eliminated, below average, or dumbing down would be accelerated. This
seems to be what happens now. Why would parents want that?
=2E.. I decided against one Catholic school, even though it's
> a very good school, because if my daughter is still there at age 6, I
didn=
't
> want to have to explain why she'd have to go through all the steps for
> preparing for First Communion, which doesn't exist in our church.
>
> There are two non-religious private schools in our area. Both have price
> tags of about 20K a year. I'm not paying $280K for PreK-12th grade (and
> that's before tuition increases and inflation), and I seriously doubt
any
> voucher program would.
>
Maybe a voucher program would pay part.
There are public charter schools near me. The money it costs for
public school goes to parents to pay for the public charter schools.
This is essentially a voucher to public schools. Charter schools have
fewer rules and regulations, mandates etc.
The attacks on charter schools by teachers' unions is ceaseless.
=2E..
>
> We have expensive and lousy schools. Why does that not bother you?
>
> ----
> Every single private school I looked at, even those with heavy religious
> subsidies, cost more than the average student spending in our public
schoo=
l
> district for a non special ed student, which, right now, runs about
$3000 =
a
> year. The per student spending figures of 8-9K all include special ed
and
> various other programs which are federal mandates and are not evenly
> distributed. It is quite possible that a special ed student can cost
over
> 100K a year to educate-and that this is a bargain because the other
> alternative would be a taxpayer paid residential program which would
cost
> more.
>
Around here the per pupil cost of public school is around $12,000.
http://www.heritage.org/research/education/schoolchoice/NewYork.cfm
=2E..
> Then you wouldn't like a majority of the private schools I've visited.
> There's an awful lot of "put the kids in the room, hand them Abeka
> materials, and let them work on their own" programs out there. And
they're=
> the ones who really, really want vouchers, because their main selling
poin=
t
> is "We're private and they're not". There are recent rulings in TN which
> pretty much say that a diploma from some of these schools literally is
wor=
th ...
>
>
After three years of public school, my wife and I chose to do without
a lot of things in order to send the kids to good private schools. I
can assure you the difference was night and day. I have always felt
good about spending that money. I can't say the same for the school
taxes I'm forced to pay.
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