<p>This thread got me to think a little. With all due respect, I started to agree with Invent, but then some of your comments were very inaccurate. I think it is important to note that another expense people are forgetting about is that bs pretty much completely covers living expenses for its faculty. Housing, food, etc. Also, I believe that a private organization, company, etc. will almost always spend their money more efficiently and will have better leadership than a public company. Bs are not filled with as much corruption as public schools. Public schools are filled with corruption that sucks funding out of them. Some have the misconception that since some class sizes are bigger in public schools and there are a lot fewer opportunities in most cases, the problem is automatically a lack of funding. THIS IS NOT TRUE. The problem could be the family the child comes from (how much they value education), corruption, and lack of good leadership. For example, there is a big, poor, failing district about 25 min away from me that somehow manages to spend $25,000 per student! This district happens to be one of the worst in the state I live in. Then there is a very good private day school also about 25 min away from me that has a tuition of about 25K, and sends I think about 30%-40% of their graduates to Ivies. </p>
<p>How can this be? To start off many public schools at least near me have a board of parents that pretty much call the shots on who gets hired, constructing the budget, etc. This gets me so angry because most of the board does not have any background in education. I am sorry, but are you freaking kidding me! How are they supposed to run a school effectively and hire the right people? The board of parents at my old public school were a bunch of fools. They obviously didnt do any research on the superintendents they hire. We have probably had more superintendents in the past decade then all the bs in New England had combined. How is a school suppose to aim for long term goals if the short term goals never get completed because we have had 2-4 superintendents a year. Some of these superintendents could care less about the advancement of the school as long as they get their $200K paycheck. The last superintendent our school had I think resigned in the middle of the year. He did this at two other districts in the past. Why would the board hire him, because they are stupid and are running the school? Btw, this superintendent is such a winner that he plagiarized his entire resignation speech. Also, talking about corruption, he bought a wait for it, 15K desk with school funds. Thats right a 15K desk, with a treadmill attached to it for his office.</p>