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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question - do private high schools generally not pursue this award agressively? Scanning the finalist list for the whole country, all the schools I recognize in other states are all public schools. [/quote]
I know it's always fun to cheer public schools, but the mix of public-versus-private looks about right to me. I count 5 out of 40 Intel finalists at private schools (12.5%). According to the Dept of Education website, 10% of students are in private schools. So the private-public mix in Intel results is just reflective of where students go to school. If anything, the private school students are slightly over-represented. Sorry. [/quote]
Since private schools screen kids based on IQ and a ability to pay, wouldn't you expect then to perform a lot better? If they are only providing an education as good as that of the public sector, why pay all of that money?[/quote]
759 again. Many private schools don't screen like that at all. For example, when I looked up the number on the Dept of Ed website, I saw that something like 40-45% of private school students are at Catholic parish schools, and lots others at other religious schools, which don't IME screen for high academic performance. I suspect the number of private schools that screen for high iQ is actually pretty small, just as the number of public school magnet programs is comparatively small. As to whether either is worth the money, that's a personal decision beyond this look at the numbers.

I'm not taking anything away from the public schools, or the magnets, or the students who won these awards. I'm not interested in arguing the relative merits of public versus private schools, because IMHO they both have their place and can't be compared in a vacuum. I just got curious about the relative percentage, so I looked it up. I quite frankly was surprised by the results, so decided to post them. [/quote]

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