Let’s not be dolts... private schools get to choose their pupils, not everyone gets in. The children have parents who care and want to pay for education, because its important to them. So already they are culturally different. It’s apples and oranges, one of my kids went to private school the second transferred to public school in third grade. Because I’m a parent who cares about education, my daughter got a better public school education than my son who went to private schools. My daughter graduated with 10 AP exams and had enough credits to begin her junior year at the beginning of University.
Having had my kids in both private school and public school, from my experience the curricula are quite a bit different too. A lot more is demanded of the private school students. When we had to make the decision to go public, our kids found public schools way more easy and a lot less demanding than the private school. One is now heading off to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University this fall and the other is at bootcamp in the USMC.
> Let’s not be dolts... private schools get to choose their pupils, not everyone gets in. <
Bingo. I taught for a number of years at a blue-ribbon private school. Great kids and great administrators...but lousy pay. Anyway, if a student disrupted a class, he got one warning. If it happened again, he was gone. Not for the day, but forever.
Later on I taught in an urban public high school. I’d match my honors class kids there against any kid from any private school.
But the mainstream class kids...those kids are the real victims here. Even one disruptive student in those classes could stop any learning (oh, the stories I could tell you). And as I noted in my post #9, most of the administrators were too cowardly to take action to correct the problem.