Yeah. Off the top of my head I know a private high school that cost 26k/yr, but you're correct when we look at all the data: http://www.privateschoolreview.com/tuition-stats/private-sch...

    > The private elementary school average is $7,355 per year and the private high school average is $13,248 per year.

Wow that's 2x more expensive than my college was. I think some public schools are great as long as you tell the student that they are there to learn.

This way it's completely free for the parent and the student learns to be self-motivated.

$15-20k is definitely not comparable to "the most expensive private schools", in the Bay Area.

A quick search shows up an informal ranking here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/11/ranking...

The top 5 are all ~$40k, I didn't look much further than that. I think 15-20 is probably more the average cost?

Example #12,596 why using the Bay Area as your only data point leads to a pretty distorted view of the world (I'm talking to you too, Amir).

Ehhhh, it isn't unusual to see private elementary/middle/high- school tuition in NYC rival the tuition at Ivy League colleges, so definitely not limited to the Bay Area.

Given that the article is specifically talking about the Bay Area, I thought it was appropriate

    >> Have everyone kick in $15-20k/year each year
    >> It'd be cheaper than private school

    > That's comparable to the most expensive private schools

I'm surprised. In the UK, the good ones[1] tend to be around $40k USD p/a for day pupils (rising to $50k if you include board), and that's mostly outside of London.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_%28United_Kingdom...

It's also comparable to what the public school system pays per kid in many cities. It could be made easily affordable trough school vouchers.

Not in the Bay Area which is what the original article is describing.