Problem is, very few private educations reflect the actual cost of educating their students. I know a Chemistry teacher at a small Christian school. She's paid under $20k/year. If she wasn't approaching it as a ministry (and if her husband wasn't a highly-paid research scientist), those numbers would not be sustainable - and even there, tuition is $4500/year.
Private schools are either incredibly expensive (more than a college education) or subsidized by a religious organization that pays virtually nothing.
(And, by the way... I liked this post... it was about the issues.)
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This is what the free market produces. Too bad.
It does **not** matter what a private school teacher’s motivation or circumstances are. She is **willing** to provide her services for $20,000 a year. That is the **Free **Market. No one is holding a gun to her head.
Were you aware that volunteers ran the Catholic schools for more than a century and were paid nearly nothing? They were called nuns. These volunteers were responding to the free market. They were willing to give their labor away for almost no salary.
Are you aware that homeschooling parents educate their children for no pay at all, or even at a negative wage since they often give up outside employment? They see it as a calling as well. They are responding to the free market as well.
The free market also permits anyone to subsidize any charity. That includes private schools. The result is that private schools cost parents far less than government schools, and cost the taxpayer nothing. No private school is going to send an armed sheriff to a citizen’s door to put their home up for auction for failure to support their private school.
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All my posts are about the issues. I invite you to re-read them.