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> Essentially, students lucky enough to be in private education were more likely to see their grades go up / stay the same, compared to students receiving free
by Stierlitz 6y ago
> Essentially, students lucky enough to be in private education were more likely to see their grades go up / stay the same, compared to students receiving free education seeing grades going down.
Students in “private” schools get a better quality of education than those receiving “free” education. And it isn't free, we pay for it through taxation. And over here the “private” schools are called “public”. While the public schools are called comprehensive.
- corin_ 6y agoI'm aware of the naming (I'm English and was educated here), but writing for HN's international audience it's easier to use universally understood terms rather than ones you need to understand our system to recognise. FYI only some private schools are Public Schools (and all Public Schools are private), but the term for all private ones is actually Independent Schools. And yes, obviously the better education leads to better grades, but that's a completely different issue. The point in my comment that you replied to is not that independent schools got better grades than state schools this year; it's that their % improvement from previous years to this year is way higher than non-independant schools % change from previous years.