Kent Schumacher <kent at structural-wood.com> writes:

> I think Liz said she was paying $800 / month for her child to go to a private school.
> This works out to about $7200/year.  This is a lot less than our public schools spend
> per student.

I don't know the details of the school Liz sends her kids to, but lots
of private schools lose money on the full tuition rate.  Either
explicitly, and they look for grants and gifts (the up-scale secular
ones), or implicitly, by using some underpaid or volunteer teachers
(most of the religious ones).
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