My mistake in wording, I didn't mean that it was prohibitively expensive by necessity. It seems that education costs are artificially inflated in the US at all levels. I agree completely that education doesn't need to be expensive to be effective.
You can definitely find expensive private schools in every area. In my experience you can also find decently priced ones.
For my oldest we've moved through public, home school, private, and back to public over the years, trying various things. I have a criticism of each of them, and while we may have chosen the "wrong" private school, but it wasn't price that had us choose there.
