"If you send your kid to private school, you are a bad person"

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41. Well if we did away with all private education ...

I am willing to be that our public education system would improve significantly. If the well to do had to send their kids to public schools they would insist on improvements and the people WE ALL elect would quickly comply as in many cases their own children would be forced to go to public schools.

As it is today the richer members of society can afford to send their children to a good private school. One of the obvious advantages is that these children will get a far better education at the high school level which will enable them to score higher on college entrance exams and to have a far easier time getting the advanced education often necessary to be successful in life. The upper classes will find it easier to insure that their descendants are in the positions of power in our nation.

Now I am not saying that it is impossible for a child of a lower class to be successful but to do so he has to be far brighter and more disciplined than a member of the upper classes who has the advantage of attending a private school.

Nor I'm I saying that public school teachers are inferior to private school teachers. One advantage of a private school is that often the students learn in a disciplined environment while in many public schools the students are far more disruptive. Also a teacher in a private school has the advantage of not having to deal with all the time and effort that complying with the bureaucracy of a public school. A private school teacher without that burden can spend more time teaching and may be able to teach in a more creative manner that suits him/her and is effective.

Unfortunately I see hope of any major changes in our public educational system in the near future and obviously eliminating all private schools is just a pipe dream.