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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s crazy is how much money per pupil school districts spend. I’ve taught in public schools and private schools. Resources aren’t what separate private from public. I had more resources in the public (esp. Title 1) schools in which I taught. There are two main differences: teachers‘ unions and parental involvement. If you can fire a bad teacher and hire whomever you want, it’s better for the school. If parents are involved, students do better. Private schools have the freedom to create their own curricula and fire bad teachers. [/quote]

This is a lie that is repeated way too many times.

And do Americans realize that they're the only group that spout that "Parental involvement is the most important thing"

How come I don't see other nations mentioning this?[/quote]

Baltimore city is in the top five nationally for a per pupil spending. I don’t know what the answer is, but money doesn’t seem to be it. [/quote]

Most of the money goes to administrator fees not to students. The lie I'm referring to is that public schools and private schools have equal resources. GTFO with that lie. [/quote]

Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil.  Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?[/quote]

Right. The vast majority of kids attending non-public schools attend Catholic parochial schools.

Only something like 2% of US students attend secular, independent schools and even then, most of them don’t attend schools like Sidwell, Dalton, Brearley, Harvard-Westlake, Andover, Exeter, etc.

MCPS spends roughly $16K per pupil. Seneca Academy—a school lots of people on this board say is crappy, but is actually a really welcoming, down to earth school with an IB curriculum—charges $19,500/year. [/quote]

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