Reply #131: But you've got everyone who DOESN'T have children in [View All]

[Carolinian]

school picking up the tab for public education. You don't need to penalize the parents whose kids are in private school.

BTW, there are poor black kids in my children's private school. We donate to a fund that subsidizes 50% of the students that attend the school. The rule is that a family must pay 25% of the tuition ($3000) and the fund will pay the rest for those that qualify. Can you imagine how hard it is for these families to scrape that together? Yet they do just that because they recognize that their child needs more than public school is giving them. These poor black kids are also very gifted and, like myself, their parents felt they were dying on the vine in public school.