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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4277827, member: 153"] Let's put this in some perspective: 1. Private schools are only 14% of the national landscape. 84% of American undergrads at 4 year institutions attend public schools. The national average tuition is $7,500 (not counting fees which are approximately $2.5k). 2. Private schools spend approximately $25k a year per student, a little ore than the $20k a year that the publics spend. In New York, by the way, we spend $20k a year per kindergartner. 3. Private schools redistribute the money from rich kids to middle class and poor kids. This is why private schools like test-optional (they can admit richer kids this way, full payers), and also the D3 private schools that don't give athletic scholarships can get kids in through the back door in the summer. Athletes apply through a special admissions pool. The whole Felicity Huffman thing was crude but not so different from the reality at many private schools. 4. A lot of people will likely make a lot more money at trade school--judging by the amount of money I'm charged by contractors!!! That being said, our national rate for college graduates is abysmal compared to our cohort around the world. We're at around 30% college grads nationally while the countries we compete against are near 65-70%. So, yes, individually, there's a good case to be made for your kid taking up a trade. Many will do much better than college grads. But as a nation, we need a lot more college grads, because if we don't start producing more of them, we'll import them from other countries. 5. More federal subsidies for public colleges and universities would not be a big cost. I was calculating a few months ago that it would be in the $50b range for the Fed. government to fund half of tuition for every student. That's only double what we pay for the National Park system. It would allow us to open more seats at universities which would take the insane pressure off of high school. And we'd have many fewer dropouts as well, we'd solve the national student loan crisis. [/QUOTE]

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