Hagridddd's education rant ( Re: Reading, Writing, and Multiple Choice)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd" 
<jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> 
> there are numerous reports that the per student cost is far higher 
> in the public system.  In my dictionary, it says that that is the 
> precise definiton of "inefficient"; its denotation, if you will. 

I have seen some of those reports analysed to reveal that the MODE 
average cost per student in the specific public system was lower than 
in the comparison private schools, but the MEAN average cost per 
student in the specific public system was higher because it included 
the fantastically high costs of particular disabled students ... one 
child was so disabled that even with an oxygen tank and a full-time 
private nurse attendent she physically couldn't live in a classroom, 
so the school district (under the non-discrimination law requiring 
the taxpayer to pay for a "free appropriate public education" for 
EVERY child) had to pay something like a hundred thousand dollars a 
year to house/educate this child in a specialised school/hospital ...