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What's the problem with selective schools? I think mostly everyone is aware that selective schools are successful because of selection bias. I went to Melbourn
by thundergolfer 9y ago
What's the problem with selective schools? I think mostly everyone is aware that selective schools are successful because of selection bias.
I went to Melbourne High in Victoria (all boys academic selective), and think my peers and I benefitted from leaving our original (mostly public) schools to go there.
Do you think the education system overall suffers from the 'extracting' of these students out of their original schools?
- glangdale 9y agoI went to North Sydney Boys High (all boys academic selective, like you). I think we benefited. I think the schools we were taken out of did not. Back in the era of narrower catchments for selective schools, it was more like losing the top 10-20% for a bunch of nearby schools rather than skimming off a few people from every school in Sydney.