Parents' Perspective on why they choose to send their children to Private Schools. Why are more and more parents choosing private schools over public schools in Ontario?
Introduction
Over the years, private schools have been playing a vital role in the education sector in Ontario. This has been notable over the last decade as new private schools are being built and the rising number of parents sending their children to private facilities. As the number of private schools increases, the reasons for children's transfer from public schools increase (Brown, 2020). In Ontario, Canada, Public Schools are divided into three categories: early childhood education, elementary school, and secondary school. The schools are funded through a provincial method (Rowe & Berry, 2020). They are governed by the Ministry of Education, as per the Education Act. The Ministry is responsible for setting the regional curriculum, equal distribution of funds to schools depending on the number of learners, size of the school, and the location, setting up policies for school boards, prioritizing books to use in teaching, and establishing requirements for graduating in diplomas and certificates. Through Parent Involvement Committee, school boards join hands with parents to ensure effective running of the entities.
In this research project, we try to understand why more and more parents are prioritizing private schools over public schools and for what reasons. Parents make these transfer decisions because of the quality of education in private schools to secure their children's future. Private schools, too, have diversified their scope to accommodate children from different racial, ethical, and economic setups (Brown, 2020). Also, the schools have gained themselves a reputable name in the neighborhood from their characteristics besides having diverse extracurricular events. The research questions propelling the study include: How do parents distinguish the environments of private schools? Do reasons for choosing a private school to differ from the type of private school? What is the reason for choosing to take children to a private school over a private school? What is the difference between reasons given by parents to those given by children and administrators' choosing private schools (Milian &Quirke, 2017)?
The study is essential as it explains to leaders the motive behind making children transfer from public to private schools. The findings of this research can be used to initiate a conversation between stakeholders in the education sector to improve the delivery of good education in public schools. The void on parents' decisions will be understood, and the demographic of parents who take their children to private schools obtained (Rowe & Berry, 2020). Private schools will use the conclusions from the study to develop strategic plans on parent satisfaction.
Research Design
The research design shapes the research technique. The researcher can denote the research's aim, purpose, motive, and plan in denotation to location, time, money, and personnel present. Therefore, research needs to ensure an adequate flow of research activities. It also propels the reliability of results gained, establishing a foundation of the research about the findings to establish.
The design utilized by the researcher is qualitative interpretive design (Flick, 2017). The design helps understand the people's meaning to their experience in the social world within a specific context or situation. In this, the researcher is part of the study in identifying reasons and meaning. So there is an obligation of subjectivity and need to reflect on the part of the researcher. The approach is also motivated by the increasing evidence of what is happening in the field of study. The design is also involved on the researcher's end, giving a subjective viewpoint in discovering the phenomena.
Qualitative design is suitable for cutting through discipline, fields, and the...
…is because, across Ontario, not all parents' opinions would be collected on why they are moving their children to private schools. The sample size would not cover the opinion of the entire population.After collecting data, as the researcher, the researcher would transcribe information from the digital recordings (West et al., 2017). The researcher would obtain the raw data from the respondents and process it to readable form to be used to make decisions on different sectors to boost the education of our children. From all the questionnaires, all ticked answered should be clear and additional information readable. The researcher arranges the answers in rows and columns in table form for further analysis through a spreadsheet alongside statistical software. After processing and tabulation, the incomplete data may have errors that need cleaning to eliminate errors. The data can be taken through the process of record matching, identifying mistakes, the general quality of processed data, similarity, and column segmentation. All this is made possible through a variety of analytical techniques.
Data Analysis
After the responses are cleaned, the data is analyzed, descriptive data analysis. The process may result in additional cleaning or a request for additional data. Mathematical formulas help to identify the relationship among the different variables (West et al., 2017). In place of particular variables, the inferential statistics technique is used. A descriptive account of the findings is presented, referencing the literature that framed the study ranging from the mean and median to aid in understanding the data. All the inputs and output should be noted and fed back to the environment. Immediately data is analyzed, it moves to the reporting stage to allow interpretation and feedback (West et al., 2017). The visualization method is also put in place to have the data in graphical form or pie chart to give insight into…
References
Brown, D. W. (2020). Social Darwinism, Private Schooling and Sport in Victorian and Edwardian Canada 1 (pp. 215-230). Routledge.
Flick, U. (Ed.). (2017). The Sage handbook of qualitative data collection. Sage.
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Milian, R. P., & Quirke, L. (2017). Crafting legitimate identities: Promotional strategies in the Ontario non-elite private school sector. Educational Studies, 53(4), 342-358.
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