>>92405857I passed out from exhaustion, so I'm sorry for the late reply.
In the United States we have something called the public school system. The public school system is funded by taxpayer money within a city, which is distributed to the schools within that city. For example, taxes taken from people living in New York City will be used to fund ONLY schools within New York City, and not for, say, a school in Los Angeles, California.
The upside to this is that it encourages families to move to "good education" neighborhoods, which means you get cities that are divided into residential neighborhoods and business districts. The downside to this is that there can be vast financial inequality just across a set of railroad tracks, with one public school having a tremendously higher financial budget than another, meaning one school has a good education program while the other is treated as a day care service to send children away for nine hours.
Our private schooling systems are religious centers (like Montesorri schools) or private businesses (like charter and magnet schools) that meet the National Education guidelines and can provide a high school diploma or GED equivalent. These schools earn their money through tuition payments and from donors who contribute money to keep them afloat, which means that you can either have a very affluent private school (such as ones in New York that are affiliated with Ivy League colleges as "preparatory schools"), or can be like Echo Creek, which has a scum-sucker for a principal that has little-to-no interest in the students' educations whatsoever.
In the United States, Southern California has a very, very poor public school system thanks to the massive influx of immigrants who do not pay taxes and whose children by and large do not speak proper English, which is why people who can afford a private education of any sort does. My family included.
