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public schools provide education for all children in the United States. Children of all religions,
races and ethnicities, socioeconomic classes, and levels of academic ability can attend public schools free
of charge from kindergarten through the twelfth grade. It would be impossible for private schools to
provide an education for all of the nation’s children. Private schools do provide some education in the
United States; however, they charge tuition, and only those parents who can afford to pay their fees (or
whose children gain a scholarship) can attend these institutions. Some schools charge very high tuition, the
equivalent to the tuition at a private college. If private schools were the only educational institutions, most
poor and working-class children and many middle-class children would be uneducated. Private schooling
is a type of good called a toll good. Toll goods are available to many people, and many people can make
use of them, but only if they can pay the price. They occupy a middle ground between public and private
goods. All parents may send their children to public schools in the United States. They can choose to
send their children to a private school, but the private school will charge them. On the other hand, public
schools, which are operated by the government, provide free education so all children can attend school.
Therefore, everyone in the nation benefits from the educated voters and workers produced by the public
school system. Another distinction between public and private goods is that public goods are available to
all, typically without additional charge."