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Posted By: Jim Dale

Since education has come up and someone offered their private school experience the opposite needs to be noted. In California we tax payers put in about $8500 a year per student and get one of the worst systems in the country. Yet charter and private schools (mostly religous minded) manage to outscore and out educate our public schools with about $5,000 a year per student.

This same poster who commented on the $17k per student and 20 student class size should note - please show me ONE study that says 20 students per class makes a difference over 30 students per class that was not funded by a TEACHERS Union. In fact a small study done by a public administration grad student found absolutely no difference in the qualities of education until the class size exceeded 35.

Simply offer tax breaks to those who spend on their own education and let the market show for itself which system is better.