On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:52:56 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 11/27/15 3:53 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


Harry cracks me up. When the subject is global warming or creationism,
math, science and statistics reign but when it comes to a social issue
dear to his heart, math, science and statistics go out the window and
the insults start.

You are absolutely correct. Two of our kids went to public high
schools, the third went to a highly rated private high school.

I just looked up the current public school budget and the "cost per
pupil" for the long list of budgetary line items. Then I looked up the
current tuition (inclusive of all student fees) for the private school
our third kid graduated from.

The total "cost per pupil" is actually slightly higher in the public
school than the tuition for the private. The private has a statistical
record of the highest percentage of graduates continuing on to college
and also has the higher average SAT scores.



It is a bit naive to compare cost per pupil between public and private
schools, since public schools in the main pay their staffs decently, and
are also burdened with trying to correct most of the ills of society
dumped on kids with impoverished parents, have to provide programs for
intellectually and emotionally challenged kids, and don't have the
advantage of cherry picking their students. But, hey, it's just math,
right?

You never disappoint ;-)

How about those charter schools that specialize on "special" students,
get less money and still provide superior results.