EDU: Public Schools (Was: Re: [extropy-chat] Game theory of c ommon cold)

[Emlyn O'regan]

I don't know about the US, but fwiw, in Australia the private schools get
plenty of government money. So people who have kids in private school (like
me) are leaning on the public purse too, quite heavily I think. So there's
not really any room for sanctimony as regards tax & schooling for us.

OTOH, a bit of googling shows me that private school kids get less per
capita than public school kids, so maybe there's a little wiggle room :-) .

eg: this mediocre piece of journalism from The Australian:
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8307023%255E13881,
00.html

Emlyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MB [mailto:mbb386 at main.nc.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 9:18 AM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: EDU: Public Schools (Was: Re: [extropy-chat] 
> Game theory of
> common cold)
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps if people actually thought they were paying for education
> they'd pay a bit more attention to what the kids were doing in school.
> 
> I know *we* paid close attention. We were paying tax for public and
> tuition for private school... Arrgh. It was a rough time. But we felt
> we had little choice where we lived.
> 
> Good luck with your girls. You're giving them the chance they need. :)
> 
> Regards,
> MB
> 
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Kevin Freels wrote:
> 
>  There must be a lot of
> > idiots in the public school system.) This would be offset 
> if parents simply
> > gave a shit about their kids.
> >
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