[youngnh]

> But if some private school starts to produce much better students than the public system, there will be chaos.

I'm a miltary brat, so I've been in and out of a half-dozen public and private schools in my K-12 education. Everywhere I went there were private schools significantly better than the public ones.

The chaos seems to be confined along socioeconomic lines. The best teachers in the world can't teach kids that don't show up for class, and I'd say America is pretty split as to whether showing up for class is strictly necessary for future success.

[marvin]

I went to a private (school equivalent to) high-school myself..in Norway, and the same holds here. It was about three times better than any public school I'd been to thus far.