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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by yardie on Friday January 31, 2014 @01:55AM (#7155667)
I'm going to need context for this. People will commute for hours per week to buy/rent a home in a good school district. I'm looking into school right now where homes in the neighbourhood are $1MM+. I can't afford that so I'll try and get our kid in through the special snowflake waiver.

People will spend ungodly amounts of money to move to an area with decent schools.

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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by arethuza on Friday January 31, 2014 @06:31AM (#7156210)
Here in Edinburgh (which has a very high level of kids in private school - around 25%, very unusual for the UK) a recent report suggested that it was actually cheaper to send 2 kids to private school than to relocate to an area that has a good state school.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/private-school-cheape...

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