An interesting trend toward home schooling.  For the uber-wealthy, it's not enough to opt out of public schools -- but now ALL schools!

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June 5, 2006

In Gilded Age of Home Schooling, Students Have Private Teachers

By SUSAN SAULNY

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/education/05homeschool.html?hp&ex=1149480000&en=1d33e1dc316ffac4&ei=5094&partner=homepage

In what is an elite tweak on home schooling — and a throwback to the gilded days of education by governess or tutor — growing numbers of families are choosing the ultimate in private school: hiring teachers to educate their children in their own homes.

Unlike the more familiar home-schoolers of recent years, these families are not trying to get more religion into their children's lives, or escape what some consider the tyranny of the government's hand in schools. In fact, many say they have no argument with ordinary education — it just does not fit their lifestyles...