text: Agree on a single public system with optional training.
  
  As a kid in Berkeley, I attended public school but we had release time religious ed....
  
  In our own family (not far from Berkeley) our kids attended a mix of public, private and catholic schools and we paid private school tuition and didn't expect the general public to pick up our private or Catholic school choice costs.....
  
  Have 4 grandkids in college right now and our kids make too much for assistance so they are looking at three 60k tuitions and one state university 45K tuition....the LA Times did a piece on this...come to find out one grandkids picture was included in the article.
  
  Living costs in coastal cities are high and as my kids often point out to me those yearly college costs are paid with after tax income!