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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.

But,,,don't expect taxpayers to do that for the nation's children.

I've known several Choate and other prep school graduates over the years. They are extremely bright and are grateful for the education they received. The social contacts are nice, but the education is excellent.

To paint the cost of a prep school education as paying for country club facilities is really false. It gives the impression that the hefty tuition has nothing or very little to do with the quality of education.

The bottomline is this: If you have the money then you can afford a top flight education and your kid has the brains, then he or she succeeds. If you don't have the money, then you pay for second best and even if the kid has the potential to succeed, then he or she will probably still end up detailing cars.