[mtbopfuyn]

I'm saying YES to our public school. Our public school continually earns the highest academic marks and there are very few discipline problems. The private school kids who transfer back to the public HS usually have to repeat a grade or attend summer school. Besides, I don't have a few thou$and laying around. Perhaps you might consider moving to another district or become an active within the school by volunteering or becoming an active member of the PTO. Throwing $$$ at a school isn't going to ensure your child recieves a good education.

[Clemenza]

There are some good public schools out there. Unfortunately, most of these are in areas that charge an arm and a leg in property taxes that could otherwise be used for tuition money.

Then again, when I lived in South Florida where the schools are sh-t, friends of mine who had kids in the Socialist Academies, er, "Public Schools" kept raving about how great their schools were and how ahead their kids were compared to other schools, when statistics did not bear it out. I think most parents are absolutely CLUELESS when it comes to evaluating their schools vis a vis other educational institutions, especially in rural areas where there are few alternatives to the local socialist education camp.

Remember also that there is a world's worth of difference between the "Christian" and parochial schools, which are in many places no better or sometimes worse than the government schools and the $$ prep schools that we have in New York.

Public Education=Socialism for the middle class and a Twelve-Year sentence for America's youth. Feel free to trust your local educrats out in Wal-Mart land. When I have kids, however, there is not a chance in hell that they will attend either a Government or Parochial school.