Roger Sinasohn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

The "You do the math" challenge got to me.

According to Qedit, that turns out to be $8400 per student, per year
(assuming your numbers are accurate.)

I know someone is whose daughter is starting at a private school in the fall
-- for $14k a year. Except that they expect significant additional cash
donations (that way, part of the total cost is deductable) as well as
significant volunteer time. Now, this is a very good school. I'd guess
that a barely adequate school might cost somewhere around, oh, say,
$8400/year.


Roger,

Thanks for jumping in, but your missing something.

Let's say the average class size is publik skools is 30 students....

so $8400 * 30 = 252,000 per year to educate one class.

Now private schools have a higher standard, let's say they only want a max of 15 students per class, so the teacher can focus more attention per student..

14,000 * 12 =210,000 per year to educate one class.

Now for the math question, which teacher do you think earns more.  The publik school teacher or the private school teacher?  (Please let's not get into pensions and benefits.)

-Craig






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