The FACT is that there has never been a private school which had the same cross-section of students as the public schools in our inner cities. Never. Ever. Period. Not the same number of kids who don't speak English well. Not the same number of kids whose parents are drug addicts. Not the same number of kids who have physical handicaps and learning disabilities. Not the same number of kids who spend part of every month in jail. Comparing outcome between these very selective private schools and the public system is apples and oranges. Hell, it's apples and crankshafts. Nobody KNOWS if the private schools are doing better than the public schools because they're doing something DIFFERENT than what the public schools are doing. So the comparison is MEANINGLESS.

Get it?

Alex