Where do Michelle Rhee's children go to school? Glad you asked....

[Divernan]

265. Thanks for posting those findings.

I am not saying that segregation by race and class is better for the kids who attend the more expensive schools. Your figures prove that there is a direct correlation between the amount spent on a child's education and the child's achievements, and therefore if we want our children to have a better education, the whining property tax payers need to quit nickle and diming their local public school systems, which will only result in the further dumbing down of Americans - great for pressuring young people into enlisting in the military and becoming cannon fodder, but not for raising the levels of education and employability of the American workers.

Your figures also document that private education (with the exception of Christian fundamentalist schools) is better than public education. All those posters who have defensively and angrily stated that private education is not better than public education are just whistling in the dark, and are just plain wrong.

The primary factor "segregating" kids in the education system (public vs. private) is money, plain and simple. The race/class aspects are secondary to that. The scholarship/financial aid kids at private schools also get those higher scores, regardless of their family's social standing or race.

We need a leader like Lyndon Johnson to ram through a catch-up program for poorly funded public school districts.