Public Vs Private Schools

[the_bob_delusion]

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/private-school-education-has-little-effect-on-a-childs-ac...

IF YOU are a parent weighing up the benefits of an expensive private school education over the public school system, take note. It makes no difference.

According to a new national study - the first of its kind in Australia - the birthweight, the amount of time a mother spends with her child and the educational levels of both parents contributes more to a child’s overall success at school rather than the institution.

Don't you feel a bit chuffed that you didn't waste your money sending your kid to a private school. 

[artfulcreations4all]

Well, over here in the U.S. private education, generally speaking, is much better than public schooling.

If I had been able to go to private school I'm sure I'd be able to spell beter.

Not to mention use proper grandma and punctuation==and all that kinds of stuff.

I also wouldn't have had to spend most of my time in high school running down the hallways  to escape a bunch of jealous hooligans  trying to pull the hair out of my head and slap the mascara off my face.

About the only thing I learned in school was how to run like the wind in high heels.

I'm really kind of bitter about it if you want to know the trooth;

[ufo_investigations]

If you are going to have success it is going to happen, schools will not change that. The most successful people in the world actually dropped out of school and made billions of dollars. Only YOU can make success happen not an institution.

Schools don't teach you how to be street smart, how to invest and how to live your life. WE have to figure that out.

[the_bob_delusion]

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@artfulcreations4all wrote:

Well, over here in the U.S. private education, generally speaking, is much better than public schooling.

If I had been able to go to private school I'm sure I'd be able to spell beter.

Not to mention use proper grandma and punctuation==and all that kinds of stuff.

I also wouldn't have had to spend most of my time in high school running down the hallways  to escape a bunch of jealous hooligans  trying to pull the hair out of my head and slap the mascara off my face.

About the only thing I learned in school was how to run like the wind in high heels.

I'm really kind of bitter about it if you want to know the trooth;

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Lol. You dag.

[donnashuggy]

It honestly really depends on the child. If a child is tutored all through their high school years in order to gain entry to their preferred University course they will struggle when the reality of uni hits whether they go to private or public school. I personally feel money could be better spent on an investment property for them having done it both ways. I have a daughter in public school year 11 and couldn't be happier yet my other 2 attended private school and benefited greatly from that.

[Anonymous]

you forgot to mention the study refers to primary

school children only.

and of course - another study showed private school

kids were more likely to complete yr 12 and are more

likely to attend australia's most prestigeous universities.  

[***super_nova***]

Private schools have better infrastructure, lower pupil to teacher ratio etc.  All that makes it easier to learn.  It also depends on which private school.  The very top private schools add some prestige to you CV.  But if you send your kid to school with the very rich kids who get pocket money in the range of basic wage, and are delivered to school by daddy's chauffeur you can expect your kids to have some problems.  Also kids that have so much money available to them can and sometimes do misuse it.  They can afford any drug they can think off, and I know of one case when kid paid several hundred dollars to local teen hoodlum to bash up her ex boyfriend, who ended up in hospital.

I do not think that the fact that more kids in private schools go to year  12 has anything  much to do with the school.  Basically, people who pay for private school encourage their kids to finish year 12 and go to uni.  Kids from drug and alcohol affected families, who have no support go to public schools.

[cherry*135]

Don't you feel a bit chuffed that you didn't waste your money sending your kid to a private school.

Big assumption there.

We did send our 2 children to a private school for their senior school years. One had a scholarship (less than100%).. It was not a waste of money either.

[cherry*135]

My two weren't bothered by children with wealthy parents.. in some ways they benefitted from their generosity.

They know others whose parents buy them an apartment to live in when they leave school, rent free. They know most people have to work and earn to get what they want - they don't get it handed to them.

Although one girl, whose parents bought a 3brm ocean view apartment for her and her sister to live in, both girls pay rent (close to market value, one with bigger room pays more than other) they also rent out the 3rd bedroom.

[lind9650]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

Private schools have better infrastructure, lower pupil to teacher ratio etc.  All that makes it easier to learn.  It also depends on which private school.  The very top private schools add some prestige to you CV.  But if you send your kid to school with the very rich kids who get pocket money in the range of basic wage, and are delivered to school by daddy's chauffeur you can expect your kids to have some problems.  Also kids that have so much money available to them can and sometimes do misuse it.  They can afford any drug they can think off, and I know of one case when kid paid several hundred dollars to local teen hoodlum to bash up her ex boyfriend, who ended up in hospital.

I do not think that the fact that more kids in private schools go to year  12 has anything  much to do with the school.  Basically, people who pay for private school encourage their kids to finish year 12 and go to uni.  Kids from drug and alcohol affected families, who have no support go to public schools.

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Excuse me, Nova, but I feel insulted.

I have raised nine children, all of them went to public School. We could have never aforded private School, but not because we were drug addicts or alcoholics. Sevn of our children finished year 12, some of them went to Uni and became professionals, others entred aprenticships and became tradesmen. Only two left School at 16 to join the Navy and served 20 and 25 years respectively.

I m proud of my family, even without Private Schooling.

They did not have drug and alcohol affected parents.

Erica