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I think it's all about where you live plus your income, you hear movie stars bragging that they send their kids to public schools, yet the public schools in their areas are like private schools in most of ours.
This is the right answer, not class size. Many of us went to school with classes of 40 - 60 kids and the schools were better. Also, private schools tend to have all kids with parents interested in their education (or they wouldn't be paying extra bucks for it) as opposed to public schools where only some of the parents have interest.
It seems simple to me. If public schools were perceived to be better, no one would pay for private schools. In order for people to be willing to pay for them, private school must either be better or at least perceived to be better than public schools.
Why are you asking "liberals?" Do said liberals not sometimes send their children to private schools? Do "conservatives" not overwhelmingly send their children to public schools?
The short answer is that private schools are self selecting. They can pick and chose who attends. Public schools, being taxpayer funded and all, don't have the same luxury. Either you know this and are just doing some tired trolling, or you're the product of a particularly terrible public school.
This post basically answers the question off the bat and sums up the point of this thread, so no needing in retyping it, hopefully the OP read it the first time and understood it.
Private schools can high grade their students. Public schools have to take everything that shows up. Public schools should not have to accept or keep the disruptive or unteachable beyond about 7th grade. Schools are for learning not babysitting.
The parents want their kids to get a good education and are involved in seeing that they do.
Its always a good laugh when people still think that school uniforms must have some magic power to make students learn.
Only slightly less funny is that private school teachers that much better than public school teachers, although there are examples. The worst school systems generally get the least experienced teachers and the better ones transfer to better school districts.
The same question might be asked of right-wing extremists (the opposite of "liberals," yes?). Why do so many of the right-wing extremists seem to send their children to religious and other private schools ... instead of public schools?
Are there only two sets of people in your world; Those who agree with your views, and right wing extremists?
Meeting an insane post with an equally insane response isn't a prudent argument.
It seems simple to me. If public schools were perceived to be better, no one would pay for private schools. In order for people to be willing to pay for them, private school must either be better or at least perceived to be better than public schools.
Around my area the public schools are as good or better than the private ones. The private schools are stocked by kids that are there for religious reasons or that have had behavior or other challenges with the public school system and their parents felt they needed a different setting.
What do you tell the caring and involved parents of a child whose education is being held back by the slowest-learning students in the class?
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