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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 583404" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Let me put it this way: private schools should, and I emphasize should, always outperform public schools. Always. The privates cherry pick their enrollment, reject whom they please, and generally though not always get children from successful families. (And I don't think that factoid is stressed nearly enough. I once tutored a kid, 12 or 13, in a public school. And before stereotypes, he was white. Lived in a trailer. Could not read a lick. Not one. And I could not teach him, which frustrated me and on the other hand reminded me how tough those jobs are. But: I asked him if he had books at home. No. Did he have magazines? No. Did they get a newspaper? No, just an ad flier, mostly because his daddy looked at car ads. These kid was toast before he ever entered school.)</p><p></p><p>For instance, would you play me in football -- and I am a lousy football coach -- if I could offer 85 scholarships, recruit nationally, and you had to pick your team from your enrollment? (As an aside tha's why the (private) parochial schools were once so powerful: recruiting. </p><p></p><p>Public schools must take anybody coming through the door. And they should. Charter schools, parochial schools, other private schools can be and are selective. They have an advantage in every way, so comparing private and public is worse than apples and oranges. (By the way, I have no idea how it is where you are, but the "sucking public money away" being drivel, is up where in North Carolina, anything but. Public school districts are legally required to shovel the average education cost per student over to the charter school against their enrollment. You can look it up. It ain't drivel. It's fraud, and a direct attack on public education. Don't know about Georgia but if my experience in those schools was typical, god help them all, public or private.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 583404, member: 2175"] Let me put it this way: private schools should, and I emphasize should, always outperform public schools. Always. The privates cherry pick their enrollment, reject whom they please, and generally though not always get children from successful families. (And I don't think that factoid is stressed nearly enough. I once tutored a kid, 12 or 13, in a public school. And before stereotypes, he was white. Lived in a trailer. Could not read a lick. Not one. And I could not teach him, which frustrated me and on the other hand reminded me how tough those jobs are. But: I asked him if he had books at home. No. Did he have magazines? No. Did they get a newspaper? No, just an ad flier, mostly because his daddy looked at car ads. These kid was toast before he ever entered school.) For instance, would you play me in football -- and I am a lousy football coach -- if I could offer 85 scholarships, recruit nationally, and you had to pick your team from your enrollment? (As an aside tha's why the (private) parochial schools were once so powerful: recruiting. Public schools must take anybody coming through the door. And they should. Charter schools, parochial schools, other private schools can be and are selective. They have an advantage in every way, so comparing private and public is worse than apples and oranges. (By the way, I have no idea how it is where you are, but the "sucking public money away" being drivel, is up where in North Carolina, anything but. Public school districts are legally required to shovel the average education cost per student over to the charter school against their enrollment. You can look it up. It ain't drivel. It's fraud, and a direct attack on public education. Don't know about Georgia but if my experience in those schools was typical, god help them all, public or private.) [/QUOTE]
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