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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience (I've send kids to both public and private), the quality of education is much better at private.

[b]The teachers are more qualified[/b] and have more freedom. The head of school is more invested in making teachers happy. The kids are expected to behave more civilized and less like wild barbarians. Kindness, compassion, respect was taught at my kids private but never at our public so the kids were unruly and bratty.

From chapel in the morning to head of school walking around, you get the feeling that the instructors care about your child. At public school they were a number and they felt it. [/quote]

This statement is absolutely not true!  I only attended private myself, and now I'm a teacher who has only taught at private, so I have a good idea what I am talking about here (but I understand that private school parents all adamantly disagree).

Private schools pay their teachers far, far less than public, and this, combined with the fact that privates can/do employ non-certified teachers, is the reason that privates hire significantly higher proportions of young, inexperienced teachers.  Yes, the work environment is nice if you have a spouse who can pay the bills, but there are also many private school teachers who work there because they simply aren't employable at public.  The invested, enthusiastic parents of private school kids does tend to close the gap a bit, and make up for the teachers' lack of experience or subject matter knowledge, but not entirely.  In private, you are paying for social connections, prestige, and stately buildings....NOT superior teachers.

I teach private because I like the atmosphere, involved parents, and lack of behavior issues, but I am 100% certain that the education offered is not superior to public.  It is possible that the social connections do compensate, and that there are other factors that smooth a child's path to success more easily than superior teaching staff/education, and this is what parents don't want to admit.

Interesting response. What kind of social connections are being forged? Is it between the rich kids or do they benefit the other folks too?
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