Depends imo. I knew some pretty terrible private school "culture" when I was in high school. Multiple friends from my hometown got sent to private schools in Nashville for better education just for a core group of us at the public school to get higher test scores on average in our class versus theirs, and not get introduced to cocaine and assaults in school. So there's that.
so we should kick those kids out?
That's what India does. If you are unmotivated, misbehaving, or ILL they pretty much kick you out. Many schools iirc you test into but they're free (kinda like magnet school). But they don't waste their time with the bad eggs.
Yep. My wife knew plenty of private school kids. She always said they just used a higher class of drug. Ha.
You can make it from nowhere and you can fail from anywhere. Some people have a harder path to make it and some people have a harder path to fail.Yep. My wife knew plenty of private school kids. She always said they just used a higher class of drug. Ha.
I on the other hand am a product of one of the poorest systems in this great state but wouldn't change it for anything. Lots of successful people came out of that little k-12 school. Some of them on this board even.
My buds in college were from Rockwood & Cookeville, and Atl.Yep. My wife knew plenty of private school kids. She always said they just used a higher class of drug. Ha.
I on the other hand am a product of one of the poorest systems in this great state but wouldn't change it for anything. Lots of successful people came out of that little k-12 school. Some of them on this board even.
More like the state keeps adding crap that the school system needs to do and instead of adding those positions to the school they hire their friends kids in some downtown position. This is also a reason why our education system is on a downward trend. We're led by individuals who have never been in the classroom, only spent 1-2 years in there classroom, or elementary teachers who have absolutely no idea what a species is in chemistry but are telling me what I have to teach in a specialized class
Yep. Got a scrawny, malnourished Indian dude in our research facility who made the decision to skip meals as a kid so his grandmother and uncle could pay his afterschool tutoring. His dad was a millionaire but was murdered by his other uncle for the money so he grew up poor. His cousins (all lived in a house with 30 people) used to abuse and bully him while he studied, starving himself, while they didn't go to school but had food. He tested into India's MIT, got his degree, is now over here finishing masters and going for PhD. He actually wants to go back and help his community.
It's really not that complicated. It is a reverse causation.
Private school kids will tend to do better because...shockingly, their parents will correlate to higher earners, higher IQs and more resources such as tutors, with fewer extreme cases (not many private school kids will have to go home to a crack house while walking home by gangs or meth neighbors in trailer park). Add to that fewer kids per teacher (another benefit of resources)...
There isn't any special sauce outside of that, within the U.S...which is why even U.S. private schools trail many foreign public schools. After that it comes down to culture. America focuses more on stupid shiz like sports and celebrities than glorifying engineers, doctors, accountants, ya know...the people that make the world go round. The same groups many immigrants look up to.
All said, a majority of the most f****ed up kids I ended up knowing went to private school (almost all went to Catholic HS in Knoxville) and I knew a ton of them. Go figure...
