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Salary is as important to teachers as any other profession. NYC has been poaching teachers from Texas and other low salary states for years. They'll actually find young teachers and set them up in apartments in NYC. If you're under thirty with a graduate degree and a couple years experience, then it's a good deal.

Capitalism maximizes quality within a very narrow band at the top. Again, it's a get what you pay for world. You expect quality of any product to coincide with price. Low price equals low quality. Education is no different.

Capitalism maximizes quality within a very narrow band at the top. Again, it's a get what you pay for world. You expect quality of any product to coincide with price. Low price equals low quality. Education is no different.

Agreed - mostly.

But right now the quality isn't there to any degree comparable to what it would be as private. It seems that this point of view is willing to forego quality education for some in lieu of [below] average education for all.

Low price equals low quality

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Wow! Homeschoolers would be surprised.

Education has a rate limiting step. It is that children have a finite ability and finite capacity to absorb information. Spending beyond this capacity does NOT yield more education for that child. Spending beyond this rate limiting capacity yields only fancier facilities, qualified instructors, or wasted money, but NOT a better education.

Ok,,so lets say, that more money buys a better teacher. At some point even the very best of the best teachers can not deliver any more than the child can absorb.

Hm,,Let me give you an example: You do NOT need to be a Mr. Universe to lift a ten pound bag of sugar. You do NOT need to have a Ph.D to teach a first grader all that a first grade child can absorb. It is likely that a non-college graduate will get just as much out of that child as a teacher with a Ph.D. Both the non-college grad and the Ph.D. are both teaching to that child's capacity ( compare to the 10 lb. bag of sugar)

So..If it is your $25,000 and you want to spent in on manicured lawns and indoor swimming pools or have your child taught exclusively with Ph.Ds, then go ahead. It is your money. But,,,don't expect taxpayers to do that for the nation's children.