[fleagle]

Our local school district spends in the neighborhood of $17,000 per student per year to turn out barely edukated thugs and thugettes soon to be seen starring in a YouTube video beatdown near you.

Neighbors of mine attend a strict Baptist church and are awesome people. Their daughter went to public school because they couldn't afford private school and homeschooling was not the option then that it is now. Nearly every day my neighbors were called to school as their lovely girl was the subject of taunts, bullying, outright threats, and once a fairly severe beating by other girls.

The school administration did a sum total of nothing to protect this sweet girl. When my neighbors told their church, the congregation took up a collection enough to pay for the girl's final year at a private religious school nearby. The difference was night-and-day! Now this girl is a young woman who attends Liberty University and gets straight As.

[elmer fudd]

No doubt they do spend an obscene amount of money on the public schools, but the truth is that we don't really pay for them. Bureaucrats and politicians do that for us with our tax money and because they are the ones that pay the bills, they are the ones that the schools answer to. Bureaucrats and politicians do get most of what they pay for. It's just that they're paying for political support rather than education.

I spend close to $6000/yr to send my daughter to private school and because of this I do have a little pull with the school authorities, ($6000 worth). I also have the option to send my daughter elsewhere. I've been pretty happy with my daughters school however. When all the parents at a school are making sacrifices from their finances and their time to send their kids to school they end up taking their children's education pretty seriously.