Prometheus 6

And thank you for making it clear that choice has to be purchased. 

Education can be as much about whom your children sit beside as what they learn, said Christopher Lubienski, a University of Illinois professor. A study he released this year reported that, once demographic characteristics are controlled for, fourth- and eighth-graders in public school performed as well as or better than students at private schools on math tests.

“In a sense, you’re not purchasing a type of school,” Mr. Lubienski said. “You’re purchasing a peer group who your kid goes to school with.”

Relax, It’s Just Preschool
By HILLARY CHURA

DON’T tell anyone, but my husband and I plan to send our toddler to a public prekindergarten program.

It’s not just the outrageous cost — about $17,000 a year for a 4-year-old to learn his letters, or more on a per-pound basis than Harvard. Our neighborhood public schools on Manhattan’s Upper East Side are some of the finest in the city (a factor when we relocated) and we just don’t think exclusive for the sake of exclusive is necessary. Still, the fear is that you really do get what you pay for, and no parent wants to gamble with their child’s future.