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We are not talking about you in your lily white world. We're talking about the people in central Africa who make roughly a dollar a day. The majority of these people may 3-7$ a month in order to send their children to a private school, despite the existence of a free public school.
Most people in Central Africa who send their kids to a private school really have no choice but to send kids to these 'private schools'. Most public schools in Africa( and I know this for a fact as I have seen them myself) are situated in major metropolitan centers and not in rural areas where over 60% of the continent lives. In Central Africa the urbanization levels go down to 10%-25% of the population so this becomes even more untenable. Your argument is flawed.
On a side note: The actual price range for these schools is more like $1.50 to $7 a month depending on the facility. You find they're usually somewhere in the $2-$3 range. Either way public 'free' schools end up costing about the same. In Africa as 'private schools' is just another word for unqualified people teaching kids in dirty little huts that are accessible only to a few villages in a region. It's not that people send their kids to private schools because they're better, they send them there because they really have choice but to. Most people don't have the money to send their kids to the 'public schools' in the cities.
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