[Notwithstanding]

33 million per year divided by 10,500 students
= $3,142.00 /student/year

NEA & DNC force the costs up to $10,000/year
at pubic schools (no typo)

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for the math! I'm boggled at how much people are willing to spend on pubic schools :-), compared to the value received. We have people in my county, living in $500,000 houses, who are going to the school board to agitate for their children to be assigned to the school they prefer.

WHY should these people be prepared to beg the government for preferences, when they could simply pay the fees for them to attend any of a variety of religious and secular private schools? I can only conclude that they've adopted government schooling as a religious observance.

How's your family? Do you have a teenage son? I'm *looking* for my daughter :-).

[ga medic]

Public school costs so much because of special education. 15 percent or so of public school children get special education services. They are expensive. Some special cases can be up to 100,000 per year. Catholic schools are able to select their students, so they don't have to have special programs for all their students. Not saying there isn't waste etc. but special education accounts for a bulk of the difference.

[Non-Sequitur]

NEA & DNC force the costs up to $10,000/year at pubic schools (no typo)

Actually the Wichita Public School district with 44,800 students gets $3863 per pupil from the state. In Kansas almost all school funding comes from the state. Local districts are very limited in the additional funding they can provide.