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I've wondered about this for a while.

It is INSANELY expensive to fund conventional schools in every town. Not to mention the obvious corruption and b@stardization of the system by the teachers' unions and school boards. Personally I'm 100% behind efforts to offer alternatives to students, which are probably to their benefit (versus sitting in a classroom with 40+ of their closest friends, often listening to some tenured, union, "don't-give-a-f*ck" teacher drone on about whatever for eight hours a day. I'm all for it.

And don't give me that crap about "oh the kids need social skills". Bull. They're going to get those anyway through participation in other events as part of their communities. VERY overrated as justification for what conventional education costs.

I'd love to see some statistical data on how well these programs do for elementary/secondary educational levels.

And +4 to what Moses said.