being discussed is public versus private so your contradictory position is very germane. There's irony in such a voracious advocate of the egalitarian public system owning a wildly expensive, highly selective and "elite" private school on the side, no? ________________________________________\\... There is no "on the side" to it. She owns it, we are both retired from the public system which we support. Regardless Doug, your points becomes invalid, the moment you are justifying the existence of your private school, and at the same justifying or defending the policies of the public education system. The school only exists because of the fault lines of the public education, that cannot provide the education that the rich international Chinese desires for their children. How come, it is ok for the rich Chinese to exercised their choice, but not ok for the students of the public education system? You believe in equality for all, but not when it comes to your highly selective private school, where your pocketbook is concern. The inequalities abound in the public education system, and you should know it, since your padded pension provides you with the luxury of opening up a private school, that offers an inclusive education for the rich Chinese students. By the wealthy Chinese, think United States provides the best education for their children, and I read it a few weeks ago in the New York Times. They send their children off first, and than the parents come later as immigrants, where they already have established