[Ivana Denisovich]

Public education is a joke.

Many private schools are no better, unfortunately. The teachers come from the same shallow end of the gene pool and education classes as the public school teachers. And the tuition money is sometimes more important than academics or discipline to their administration. With respect to private schools: Caveat Emptor.

[RedBeaconNY]

Uggghhh... I go to a public school right now, ranked in the top 50 nationwide according to Newsweek, and the crap that they allow to go on with in those walls is absurd. We have three administrators for a building of barely 1000 kids. That, and the taxes we pay are pretty near the cost of tuition at any of our local pariochal schools.

[Amelia]

Many private schools are no better, unfortunately. The teachers come from the same shallow end of the gene pool and education classes as the public school teachers. And the tuition money is sometimes more important than academics or discipline to their administration. With respect to private schools: Caveat Emptor.

You're right, but with one exception: some private schools hire teachers public schools won't take....which is sometimes because they have the knowledge but not the teaching credentials, but sometimes because they are too "low in the gene pool" to be accepted by public schools.