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Are private school students more successful?
Yes. Of course attitude, hard work, character and social skills are big factors when it comes to success, but those who attend a private school gain a huge advantage over those in public schools.
Private schools will help the student to gain better grades for various reasons, but mostly the expectations of students, teachers and parents.
Most private schools will also have an extensive extracurricular program including academic clubs that will benefit their future employability (e.g. debating society, drama society, political society, maths club, etc…), not to mention the competitions (both internally and externally) that they will be involved in.
Teachers and parents also have the expectation that the students will go to university (probably a top university). They will draw on their links to coach the students to get into those universities (e.g. exam and interview practice).
Many schools draw on their parents and ex-students contacts for work experience opportunities which will also give the students contacts for future work as well.
Above all, private school breed confidence in their students (which sadly is also often mixed with arrogance and snobbery). This alone will take them far and give them all the advantages.
Are private schools really that much better than public schools?
Let’s establish the differences and similarities.
From my experience( My 10 Yo daughter goes to a private school); the children in private and public schools behave the same.
Children are children. :Money can’t buy ‘good behaviour’ or fewer fights. Bullying still occurs, Stupidity and rowdiness happen, mainly from the boys.
However, in public schools, things either don’t get dealt with, lack of authority, punishments are minimum.
On the other hand, In private schools, tend to deal with it quicker, more harshly and effectively.
The education in both the private school and the public is the same.
The only difference is, most teachers at private schools, tend to genuinely care about their students.
Private schools have more Holidays than public schools. Not sure if it’s good or bad, but Kids have enough resting time before they get back to their daily school routine.
Now, obviously, I seriously think this depends on the school you go to.
There are some really good public schools in Australia, that is probably better than private schools and as well there are really good private schools.
Yes. But it’s not really a fair comparison. It’s like asking if a limo is really that much better than the subway.
The limo is going to be a better experience for those that can take it because not everyone can take it.
It’s better by virtue of the fact that it’s not designed for the masses, but for the select few.
Private schools have three key advantages:
- Selectivity. They can always say “no” to enrolling a disruptive student. A single disruptive student can ruin a lesson for an entire class. Private schools don’t have to deal with as many disruptions.
- Parental support: The parents are the paying customers, after all. Private school parents, unlike public school taxpayers, can easily take their business elsewhere if they don’t like the product they’re getting for their money.
- And, the very fact that they are willing to pay extra for their child’s education means that the child has above-average levels of parental support at home. The best teachers can’t do anything to motivate a student whose own parents don’t care.
- Teacher freedom: Private schools tend to have fewer curriculum coordinators/assistant administrators/department heads/other people telling the teachers how to do their job. Teachers are free to teach the way that they know works best for the students who are in front of them.
The biggest advantage of Private schools is class size.
The maximum number of children a private school would have is 300 (the entire school). A public school would have nearly 300 in each year.
The smaller classes are the better. It means the teachers pay more attention to your child, know you inside out.
You build connections with everyone and if anything bad happens, the teachers find out within minutes and it gets dealt with.
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Does sending a child to a private school make them a better person overall?
So of course, the politically correct answer is NO. Having said all this, I think that certain private schools focus on the social and emotional lives of students — and the values/culture of students in the hallways/outside the classroom — much more so than a typical public school.
Most of the public schools often have a hard enough challenge executing basic education operations, and they don’t have enough energy/time/resources to set and enforce softer student values/manners/culture/norms more broadly.
Many private schools will tell you very specifically what type of values, morals, etc. they value in students and enforce those values aggressively.
Private schools can select the students they want public schools cannot.
Private schools can eject students that cause problems-public schools have a much harder time doing that if they can at all.
Because public schools cannot select the students they get and have a harder time throwing bad students out of school, they have a higher percentage of behaviour problems and students who do absolutely nothing in school.
These two differences mean that private schools will have only those students who:
Have parents that know the value of a good education-that translates into having parents that will get the child help, will make sure they do their homework, make sure they go to class, support the teacher, volunteer for school activities, etc.
Have parents with the resources to raise the kid-they can pay the tuition for the private school, pay for tutors if needed, can pay for other extracurricular activities, afford good food and shelter in a good neighbourhood, a car to drive, etc.
Are capable of meeting minimum academic standards-those that don’t can be kicked out.
Have students where it is possible to discipline students and enforce the desired behaviour-both because the school has recourse to deal with problem behaviour (kicking out rule breakers )and because the students have parents that will make sure the behaviours are enforced when the school tells them that their child crossed the line. as opposed to children in public schools.
So, it would stand to reason that private schools will have an overall better calibre of the student if we are talking about behaviour and academic achievement-but it is only due to the fact that private schools can set standards and can eliminate those students that do not meet the school’s requirements.
Are private high schools really a lot better academically than public ones?
A private school can be better because it can:
Focus on learning, remove many of the demands of public schools that undermine learning. Concentrate wealth and resources, rather than distribute them fairly and reasonably.
Let teachers have more control in the classroom, rather than teach state-assigned history books intentionally filled with falsehoods by politically motivated school boards
Select students on the basis of their willingness to engage in learning.Because they are private, these schools are free ( Kind of) to teach the way they want, using resources they know are better (resources not determined by the state!).
Because they charge tuition, and in some cases very substantial tuition, you are already guaranteed to get kids from families very invested in education.
Parents willing to spend $50,000 a year on a 13-year-old are likely going to be engaged, focused, and involved – kids do much better with parents who are partnering with them and who have plenty of say in the game.
Public schools, more or less, must accept anyone who appears on the doorstep and who lives in the district, regardless of ability.
Private schools can turn a student away. Many private schools have entry exams and will only accept students who can handle a very rigorous academic workload.
Now, can and are do not meet the same things, and few private schools fully take advantage of their potentials described above.
Does going to private school increase your chance of being more successful in the future?
Highly likely. Yes, A recent survey that actually found evidence that children that were privately schooled scored higher on their ACT/SAT /VSE tests.The ones that showed overall higher ratings were those who were actually homeschooled.
Of course, there ARE some children who do incredibly well in public schools due to the dedication of teachers.
Assuming success means fame or money or both. But, would it be surprising that children of affluent families whose family members are well educated (often) whose one member of the family can stay home to prepare their kids for primary classes and then later help out (often) and who can afford the tuition and the smaller class sizes (often) would not do well?
I forgot the connections that one can make in those schools and get a job that you can put on your résumé to help you out.
Did I forget the money should you wish to get extra lessons in something or start a business?
At the same time, I know of many parents who are not THAT affluent and who do make sacrifices to bring kids to those schools and/or provide extra lessons to ensure that kids do well. Still, the lower socio-economic groups do not have access to private schools.
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