The one private school here is worse than the public schools. When kids demand to transfer back with their public school friends or to play sports or their parents can’t afford it, they usually have to be placed back a grade. When parents pay tuitition, they pay to see a good report card whether their kid is earning the grade or not. American education across the board is nothing but a joke.
Our private schools were much better in the past, but the quality suffered as the economy tanked (with no light at the end of the tunnel). Many will now accept anyone and tolerate anything just to keep tuition rolling in; an older friend described this as exactly what happened in private colleges when people needed draft deferments - and especially after the draft was over (they’d grown so large, the demand fell off, and they would have shrunk or closed).