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

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- 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 ...

You have a valid point, and a rather good one.  I would like to see 
such a calculation made for successful public school systems to 
compare them to failed systems and in turn to better private scools 
vs. poorer private schools.  

But would any kind of modal average not reflect that best case 
scenario of only the pupils who require the least resources, and 
therefor exclude all those disabled student costs perforce?

Haggridd (double "g", double "d")