Majority of Public School Students Come From Poverty

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In reading the article I found it astonishing States and the Federal Government are spending $500 billion a year on education Pre-K thru HS. Considering the poor job our public schools are known for I did a cursory comparison to the costs of private schools. Only average numbers are used for both.

First the total number of students in public schools in pre-K through High School is 49.8 million and is split 35.1 million pre-k to 8th grade and 14.7 million in high school. Furthermore it was learned 5 million of the 35.1 million are enrolled in pre-k and kindergarten.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372

I found the average cost of private pre-k and kindergarten school to average $5,500 per student, elementary $7,320 per student and high school $13,196 per student.

http://www.privateschoolreview.com/t...-cost-by-state

Now just for shiats and giggles I figured out what the total cost would be to send every kid in America currently enrolled in public schools to private schools.

Pre-K – Kindergarten 5 million students X $5,500 = $27.5 Billion
1rst Grade – 8th Grade 30.1 million students X $7,320 = $220.3 Billion
High School 14.7 million students X $13,196 = $194 Billion

Add those up and it comes to $441.8 Billion or $58.2 Billion CHEAPER!

In a day and age when free choice is so valued wouldn’t it be prudent to give parents a free choice not only to abort a child but also on where and how that child is educated should an abortion be decided against?

Protestors should be out not because a public school is closing but because a private one isn’t being built. Closing the economic and race gap on this one is a money saver.

BTW The $58.2 billion saved split up between the poor students (25 million) would come to $2,328 per student. Divided by 180 school days comes to $12.93 (Enough to go out for lunch and leave a tip) Ending the days of bad free lunches