Public Schools vs. Private Schools.

[AChimp]

I have never heard of a public school out-performing a private school in my entire life.

My high school calculus class wrote a university level exam at the end of my Grade 12 year. Our average was just over 4.0 (slightly better than an A). The big private school here in Winnipeg got a B average.

Now, if private schools have such an advantage, why did a public school kick its ass? Maybe things just work differently up here in Canada.

Or maybe, you're focusing too much on ghetto schools full of DUMB KIDS. Compare a school in a middle-class suburban neighbourhood and see how they match up.

See, the private schools will almost always do better than a public school when you look at the big picture. Why? Because it costs money to go to private school, and the people who can afford it tend to be much more affluent than parents who send their kids to the prior mentioned ghetto school.

Middle-class families tend to be smarter than lower-class families. They read to their kids when they're little. They buy them educational toys. Many kids from lower-class families would rather be watching wrestling or drinking instead of being in class, because guess what Mommy and Daddy do all the time? Who's more likely to study harder, hmm?

Throwing money at a kid won't make him or her learn better, like you're proposing. Having a better teacher won't make them learn if they don't want to learn. Putting better technology in classrooms won't make them learn better if they have no desire to do anything in school.

Dumbn kids will just move into your new private school system, and bring those pretty 90+ averages down, making performance look like shit. And, to be valid, you can't just test the smart kids to see how well you're doing.

Technically no, because private schools do not have to accept everyone.

Oh ho! Now we find the secret to your system! Performance figures would increase because schools would be allowed to stack the deck! How absolutely pompous of you.

America is one of the top spenders on education, and it has worse results than many of the countries that spend less.

Maybe it's because, on average, Americans are stupider and more ignorant than everyone else in the world. What do expect your kids to be like, then? Monkey see, monkey do.