Yes and that is why the majority of private schools don't offer the upper level math classes or number of AP classes most publics do. Keep convincing yourself you are so much better - but do the homework and educate yourself about which offers superior education in the surrounding counties before you make an even more uneducated statement. the privates offer some good things to their students, including a more intense focus on athletics, but a superior education is not one of those things
How do you know this? Are you a public school teacher or maybe you can't afford private schools or maybe you son can't pass the entrance exams? You are way off base to think that public is superior to private. Public schools just keep pushing kids along to the next grade, regardless of performance etc. How many kids fail and repeat a grade in public schools? Very very few, if at all. I have done the homework, compared one of the best counties in Md. for public schools and they can't compete with privates.
Advance and AP courses are offered in privates and the main focus in privates is education first, above all else. Public schools, first priority is the teacher and keep within the lines so as to keep their jobs.
It amazes me how the uninformed come on here and come very close to trashing something they know nothing about, and you sir clearly demonstrated that.
. We shall have to simply disagree as we also have done extensive research, had no issue with the "entrance exam" and despite the brainwashing the lacrosse elite try to do, believe based on our research that the education offered in public is superior should a student wish to avail themselves of it. There are many intangibles for both - plus and minuses- but our kids do not need the handholding of the private environment and prefer the course offerings that resemble those of a small college that no private in Maryland can offer - including the number of AP classes not offered at a private simply because they do not have the number of students to fill those classes. It is economies of scale. We also prefer the breadth of diversity including socioeconomic and the lack of elitism that exists in many privates. public school in our opinion mirrors real life. private schools weed out students as to not rock the boat or risk a bad apple. As such, there are more students that are average learners or below average in a public school so,the raw stats of overall school population when comparing the two are like comparing apples and oranges. your entrance exams flush certain learners out of your population so the private scores do not represent a true diverse learning population. If you compare the scores of like students those scores would generally exceed the scores of the same population at a private. You pay for other things which each family has to weigh the worth of. Also education is not always first with privates and this is the wrong population to try and convince of that - remember many of these students athletes are offered enticements to attend said private schools beginning in 9th grade. Also any school that would hold back a child simply at the parents request for sports does not have a child's best academic interest at heart and we all know the majority of holdbacks are sports related and products of the private schools. .
Then disagree it will be. What I am gleaning from your long explanation is that you have completely convinced yourself that public is superior to private. You have sold yourself and probably the family this is the way to go for your child's education. I would bet you are a product of the public school system and think this is superior.
My gut feeling is you are taking this route because of economics and it is free compared to the cost of a superior private school. "Honey, we can get that new car now, junior is staying in public school". Could that be it. My next question, I bet you feel public colleges are far superior than private colleges.
To each his own, that's what makes the world go round, but you have really had way too much kool aid from the public school system.
Lastly, some of the things you are stating are simply not true, you seem to be making things up to try and justify your decision.
- First, you seem a bit hysterical.
- Second, what about the previous post is not true? Please provide data to support.
- Third, true, some simply can't afford it, but most families who can afford 3-5k per year for club lacrosse could probably find a way if they felt the value was there.
- Fourth, have not seen any stats that correlate private primary education with academic and economic success later in life. For every D1 commit from a Baltimore private school you see another commit to someplace like Salisbury - hardly worth multiple years of private school tuition IMHO.
Hysterical? Quite the opposite, you seem that way, given your strong push re public schools.
AP courses in public are very limited. I know of 3 or 4 private that offer AP in Computer Science and informatics; Mathematics-calculus/statistics/Science-biology, chemistry environmental science, physics; English; History and Politics; Modern and Classical Languages etc. No public school can match this and this is true in almost every private school offering. This is the part you are brushing over and stating public offers more AP, which it doesn't.
Seems many public students end up at Salisbury and the like much more than JHU, UNC, UVA, the IVY's etc.
You never answered the question, it seems you just may be a public school teacher/employee.
Again, to each their own but I do not have any faith in the public school system as a whole and how it operates. Just look at how they handle snow days and when the limit is exceeded, make kids go an extra xx number of days just to meet a set # of days. Plus, the added days at the end of the school year, the kids do nothing, they are just there so the administration can say we met the required number of days. The government got way too involved in the admin of the public school system and now it is a mess. Remember "No child left behind". Good grief.
