Adding back in the statement I was responding to, just so that we're all on the same page here.
gbaji wrote:
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Private schools do not educate children to a higher level or more cost effectively than public schools do.
Of course they do. If they didn't, no one would choose to pay their tuition. Unless you have some new definition of "more cost effective" which doesn't include some sort of cost choices made by the consumer that is? Proofs kinda in the pudding, isn't it?
Smasharoo wrote:
Of course they do. If they didn't, no one would choose to pay their tuition.
They really don't. Even the elite ones don't send a higher percentage of kids to tier 1 universities than public exam schools do. People pay the tuition, in the main, because the public schools in their area are underfunded and suck.
So for those parents, it's worth paying the price for the private school. Presumably because the delta between that private school and the public school they'd have to send their child to is significant enough to make the cost worth it. So what about that makes you think that my earlier statement is incorrect? If those parents didn't think that the private school was "more cost effective", they would not have paid the money for it.
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Some small percentage of people send their kids to very expensive private schools not for the quality of the education but for the connections later in life. All of the Saint Grottlsex schools are sh*t, but you get to live with 500 other wealthy kids with powerful parents, which is far more important in the long run.
So some sort of cost choices made by the consumer, right? I mean, if I think that paying $30k/year to send my kid to a school is worth it because he'll rub elbows with folks who'll provide him with valuable contacts later in life, then I've made the decision that
it's worth it.
Do you understand yet?
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Has never been tried. Not once. Ever.
Right, I forgot, you don't understand math. My mistake, carry on.
And yet, I'm still waiting for you to actually provide an example of it having actually been tried. You repeating "it's been tried and failed!" over and over isn't terribly convincing.