[Trailerpark Badass]

Private schools have the added ‘hands tied’ of trying to placate a paying customer whose little darling is never wrong and couldn’t possibly be a discipline problem - or otherwise ‘what are we paying you for?’.

To which the administrator of a good private school will reply, "the same thing a few hundred other parents are paying for."

"Unless you like to buy us a new auditorium, perhaps this school is not a proper fit for your child."

[allmendream]

Yes, that certainly is an option.

But what do you think happens to a teacher who keeps driving away paying customers because they have behavior problem children?

If the school is highly sought after in a high demand area then yes - they can effortlessly tell bad parents of bad children to take their money and go.

If the school is moderately sought after in a moderate demand area - and where you are offering a product that the government is giving away for ‘free’ - the economic reality is not so forgiving.

I have seen several “auditorium” parents - and it seems they WOULD rather buy a new auditorium for the school than to admit that their child is less than perfect and might need additional parenting and possibly even (gasp!) discipline.

[achilles2000]

“Unless you like to buy us a new auditorium, perhaps this school is not a proper fit for your child.”

Harvard and similar schools do have a special, but informal, admissions policy that works about like that :-)

(I’m not kidding, though)