All Harvard students receive a subsidy - even students who do not qualify for need-based aid receive a substantial subsidy, or implicit scholarship, from the university because the price charged covers only about two-thirds of the cost to Harvard for the education provided. The remaining third is paid for largely by endowments and gifts
so yes, the public schools are inefficiently educating your kids, but equating the cost with a private school education is not accurate. i say be happy you aren't coughing up any more than your tax dollars. if you want to pay for the private school education, you can do so : )
I talked to Dr. XX at work, who has PhDs from both Harvard and MIT.
He says Harvard is about $70k per student per year, really.
But, still. As taxpayers, we can either give each kid a voucher to go to ST. Anselm's, or, for a measly $7k more, send them to public school.
Would you have appreciated a $20k per kid per year education voucher?
That is a lot less than the public schools cost, in FC.
I think it would take a platoon of forensic accountants to decifer what it costs for a public education in DC.
I would not try it.
But given that the schnooze printed it - how many folks are going, "Do say what?"
LOL. That earned me some credit, somewhere.