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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kind of silly analogy. We are moving to private. I am aware of the research that says private doesn't necessarily make a notable difference in academic outcomes. Ditto small class sizes. And yet, it feels like there's some intangible benefit and that the process to get from point A to point B is just...nicer and more lovely in private. Actually, it is tangible. At the end of the day, my kids may end up attending state schools, or the same schools they would have attended if we stayed in public. They're bright, and would do well in whatever setting. ([b]Part of the move to private is for my own sanity--I did a lot of supplementing when they were in public, and decided it's worth it to just do less supplementing and put them in private[/b]) Still, I feel some ambivalence as someone who benefited from public schools growing up. That said, I know the public of 2025 is not the public of 1980s/90s.

It makes me think of how most of us grew up eating regular, non-organic fruit. I don't think I knew organic fruit existed till I was like...25? And we're fine. But we prefer to feed our kid organic when it's available and accessible/not exorbitantly priced. Is it that much better for our kids to eat organic? Hard to tell. But it feels better as a parent, to give them that. (Similar analogies would be the "difference" between breastfeeding and formula--which I think is really minimal though when I had newborns it felt like life/death, and between flying coach vs first class...everyone gets to the same place, but boy is first class nice, esp on a long flight.)  [/quote]

But, you will actually have to do as much supplementing (if not more) in private.  [b]Curriculum, pedagogy and teacher qualification in even worse than public. [/b]

What privates are great for - smaller classrooms, richer demographics, less discipline issues, more expensive ECs like horseriding, rowing.  What they are worse for - STEM, curriculum.

So, it is like you decided to eat organic onions and potatoes...but you are buying all your berries and greens from non-organic sources, and your protein from Aldis and Lidl. [/quote]

This certainly isn’t my experience.

I am one of the many private school teachers who began my career in the public system.

I’m held to a much higher standard now. We are not only required to be state certified, but we also have to complete far more ongoing training than the state requires. I’m observed more often, and by people who are actually qualified to observe me. (Some of my public administrators were not.) We are also required to do peer observations and we evaluate each others’ curricula. Neither of those things happened in public. [/quote]

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