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"Proactive parents will typically want their children in good schools, regardless of their child's behavioural history" Why wouldn't this apply to private scho
by themitigating 3y ago
"Proactive parents will typically want their children in good schools, regardless of their child's behavioural history"
Why wouldn't this apply to private schools especially because in that situation parent's have financial leverage?
Edit
Another comment said that private schools have an incentive to provide a good service otherwise people will take their money and leave. I want to temper my statment about parent's changing schools because
1. Unlike grocery stores or gas stations how many schools would be within reasonable distance where a parent could easily change.
2. "Customers take their money and leave" doesn't seem to happen that often with every other business. It's a constant theme here where we complain about the general public continuing to use substandard products. Yes it's a serious product (child's education) but factor in my points.
3. Changing schools could be traumatic for a child because they made friends, comfortable with teachers, familiar with the school. School isn't where you buy gas or go to the gym. Children are young AND emotional, stability is probably ideal. This means parents don't have as much leverage as I first stated
4. What metric do parents use? Grades, bullying?
If grades schools will have a financial incentive to inflate more than public schools. Public schools and private both have standardized tests, however a report card from a private school is a subjective judgements from the teacher that the parent will use as a metric
If bullying and a parent complains once should the other child be expelled? How does this system work? What if there are no witnesses,
bully denies it. What about verbal abuse, what if no one hears it?
If private schools start expelling bullies why aren't they required to teach children like public schools. Charter schools are supposed to be about a parents choice why should a child, bully or not, have less rights especially since they receive public money.