[VTDuffman]

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According to the U.S. Department of Education, the average private school charged $4,689 per student in tuition for the 1999Ð2000 school year. That same year, the average public school spent $8,032 per pupil.

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Apples and oranges. This is comparing the amount public schools *spent* per pupil, versus the amount private (mostly catholic) schools *charged* in tuition per student.

In addition to tuition the private students pay, the majority of Catholic schools recieve supplementary funding from their parish per student, and it brings their per student spending to nearly the same, if not in many cases much more per student.

That being said however, it does nothing to refute the assertion on results of private vs public, but I just wanted to point out that Catholic schools operate on a lot more than just the tuition of the students, and in some cases recieve more than 50% of their operating funds from the parishes and often use tuition as only a supplement.

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*Shakes Fist*

I said it first, but you said it better. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]