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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
That's what happens now, except the government tries to demand that we all lower our standards to its level. It just doesn't have the power to enforce it universally. Yay privatization.
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Well, it IS what happens now, but the government doesn't demand that we lower our standards. Public schools in upper class suburbs are far superior to ones in the ghetto. Its a matter of local funding. I attended a private school in the 8th and 9th grade, and the education it provided was inferior to what was available in the public schools at the time.
And speaking of Yale, private colleges and universities have tuition rates that are through the roof. I went to both the University of Denver (private) and the University of Colorado (public). The big difference was the class size in the lower division courses. But I feel I got an excellent education in my junior and senior years at CU, when I was taking upper division courses in my major and some of my professors were nationally acclaimed. DU was frightfully expensive. I went there only because I got a scholarship. But there are only so many sholarships available. And the reason I transferred from DU was because back then it was the biggest party school in Colorado, and I got sick of it.