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Daniel said:
> Don said:
> > [re: private schools]
> > ... but you must give a certain amount of weight (if not most)
> > to  their ability to control their environment 100%.
> 
> You also have to give a certain amount of weight (if not most) to the
> fact that, the faculty of the school knows that if they don't do a good
> job, parents can pull their children, the school may go bankrupt and
> the faculty will loose their jobs!

  Are you mocking my manner of speech, Daniel? <grin> I think you've got 
a spare o floating in your sentance there, by the way...

  I'm not sure I concur. Is it a part of the equation? Sure. But do you 
really think that the teachers in public schools are deliberate slackers? 
I do training of a lot of these people, and they sure aren't there for 
the money or adulation. If you're going to blame this on people, try the 
school administration or upper bureaucracy.
  And in that sense, private schools are at least as vulnerable to the 
same problems. Sacrificing educational quality to popularity, knucking 
under to (unreasonable) parental demands. Some private schools make 
concessions for the sake of keeping tution dollars - that same fiscal 
fear you list as a good thing at the faculty level, Daniel.
  Private schools also have the advantage of a higer level of parental 
involvement. But kids in private school often have more affluent parents 
who have more spare time, plus the factor of those parents having a level 
of concern over the return on their investement. A concern the public 
school parents don't have. (I think concern over their kids education 
should be sufficient, but it's a goofy world sometimes...)
  So if you've got the cash, will your kids get a better education in a 
private school? Probably. I'm unconvinced this will hold under a voucher 
system, though - many of what _I_ believe to be the factors that make 
them better schools _I_ believe won't carry over.

  Hey, do we need all these newsgroups in this discussion? I am removing 
alt.politics.elections and fl.news.