I am so very sad that greenbriar hasn't poked her head out of her lair to rejoin her fellow moonbats at the DUmp. I would have been amused by her thoughts on this topic, I am certain.
$15K per student is more than enough in "elite" private schools. The difference between the "elite" private schools and the public urban cesspools is the parents. If a kid has a crackhead mother and an absentee father, more than likely said kid will NEVER earn a decent grade or pass a standardized test. Sure, there are the few exceptions, the kids who excel against all odds, usually because they were mentored by some guy who looks a lot like Morgan Freeman. But beyond the Movie of the Week, that almost never happens, because all the mentors are at home posting on DU.
The moonbats would read what I just wrote and call me a racist. But I know that different areas of the country have different racial makeups in their urban cesspools. Those crackhead mothers are overwhelmingly white in some parts of the country. There you go.... I exercised my white guilt and posted a disclaimer.