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My kid goes to one of the best private schools in the country...they have no class rank.
So much for the op.
My kids go to an independent private & my oldest just graduated.
No class rank, no valedictorian, no salutatorian. The senior class votes for a "class speaker" to give a speech at graduation.
I don't know if that's always been the tradition, but it was when I graduated from the same school a few decades ago & as well as when a family member of mine graduated from the school 20 years before that.
Really??. Then why is American almost at the bottom internationally in math, science, etc?
My son went to a middle of the road public high school and skipped his freshman year at one of the country's top five engineering schools. It's the quality of the student, not school, that matters most.
You mean "other" stuff like languages, literature, music, art, technology, and science? Uh-oh, can't allow that left-wing stuff in, can you? You might even call including it having "an agenda", right??
They do all that too. Them kids speak Spanish pretty well, they go to theater plays down at UT all the time. Art... are you kidding. They do all kinds of stuff and crafts. Are far as Science goes, pooling there money they rent a lab at the community college, or UT if something big, for a day of the week. There are many places they go to learn stuff and they are always going to the creeks, rivers and lakes for the day of class. They all went to West Texas to the space observatory in the Davis Mountains, to look at the stars. They even have athletics opportunities and can even play on the local HS teams(Texas law).
Really??. Then why is American rated so low internationally in math, science, etc?
There are millions of kids that get an excellent education at public schools. Just because there are some very poorly run (for many reasons) systems that doesn't negate the education the others get.
A students experience is not one thing. We have two private schools around here. Catholic and Christian. Neither would meet the needs of my daughter. She plans on pursuing music education (with a minor in English) to become a teacher. The music program in both of the private schools suck. Almost non existent.
She plays the clarinet in the marching band. The bass clarinet in the regular band. The marimba in the percussion ensemble and the bass guitar in the jazz band. As a 10th grader she was invited to play at Glenville State College (where her mom went) in their high school honors band program.
Generalizations suck. Some systems are bad. Many, many others are not. This goes for private also.
Some would say sending your kids to private school is not exposing them to the real world and keeping them sheltered.
I went to catholic school for 12 years. Public schools were not great in my area. My son goes to public school and the curriculum is way more rigorous than mine was in private school. Some of that may be the times. For all the talk about slipping academic standards, that has not been my experience at all. He's already taken 2 years of HS math and 1 of science and he's in 8th grade. The state tests required for a high school diploma are now much harder than when I was in school as well.
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