Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

[Aliantha]

Private schools offer a better education because it has become a self fulfilling profecy. When you tell people they can buy a better education for their kids, they'll pay for it through they eye teeth if they have to. This means that private schools generally have more money and therefor better resources to aid learning.

They also offer better social capital which is really the main benefit kids get from private schooling. Believe me, the 'old boys' club doesn't start when you're an old boy. It starts when you're about 6.

So, the wealthy kids go to private schools. They create networks of friends and acquaintances while they're there and then when they take over daddy's business, they have a neat little package to go with it.

Education is not just about educational outcomes. If you believe that, you're living in dreamland.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Education is not just about educational outcomes. If you believe that, you're living in dreamland.

Every peer I believe to be a millionaire is self made and a graduate of public schools. Private school friends did well. But clearly the most successful were all public school graduates. That's not dreaming. That's hard reality.

As xoxoxoBruce notes: parents, parents .... 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management.

Remove hype from lying political extremists (ie George Jr), and facts remain - as even City College of NY demonstrated: public schools tend to outperform private schools. City College has a long list of Nobel Prize laureates and other famous American success stories. So now the rich or religious extremists want us to pay for their inferior schools. Sound exactly like the George Jr philosophy of enriching the rich at the expense of those who don't contribute to his campaign funds.