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[quote=Anonymous]Privates generally don't employ the "one size fits all" approach to students, no matter how nonsensical in terms of disciplinary and administrative issues, just read about some of the events in the Fairfax County Public Schools regarding 7-12 week suspensions, delays in hearings and eventual transfer to other schools for kids with single offenses ie the girl with an antibiotic for acne in her locker, or the tragic suicide of the football player caught with a single pill.
Also the close relationships with teachers, incredible focus on writing in at least many of the private upper schools, with graduates reporting back from colleges to say that they are immeasurably better prepared regarding that aspect compared to most of the public school graduates, even from the best magnets and surburban high schools, where teachers with 120 students or more per semester simply can't be spending a huge amount of time going through and helping students edit multiple drafts of essays and research papers.  I don't feel that the math/science education is necessarily stronger and in fact may be weaker in some privates than magnets and big strong suburban publics, simply because of numbers and diffculty offering a breadth of levels of instruction, but in the humanities the privates really do seem to have an advantage. Then there are the arts which are being increasingly underfunded and whittled away in terms of time at most publics.  [/quote]

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