Private vs. Public Schools
Many parents find themselves caught in a dilemma when trying to decide on which choice of education to take for their children. They ask themselves whether to take their children to private schools or public schools. For a parent to choose the ideal school for their children they always have to take into consideration all the available options. They consider things like the cost of the school, how much time they will invest as a parent, the social impact that the school have on their children based on the specific need of their children as well as the family.
Private schools offer the best option for the parent who is in need of better and quality education for their children. Private schools have a nearly perfect graduation rates which market them a great deal. Their performance is better as compared to the public schools. This is evident in SAT scores used by CAPE in 2003 in demonstrating the positive impact that the private schools have. The average for private schools SAT verbal nationally was 507, and math was 519, while for public schools the average verbal was 504 and math 516. When it was broken down further, private schools which are religious affiliated have average SAT verbal of 535 and math 530. Among these, independent private schools were the ones who boasted the highest averages with verbal at 550 and math 573. This was affirmed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in standardized writing exams when it showed that 4th graders within private schools had a higher average of 13 points as compared to the one enrolled in public schools, reaching 8th grade their scores become 18 points higher as compared to public school students. At 12th grade the grade of the private school become 22 points higher as compared to the public schools.
Private schools always do not admit high number of students and that makes the ratio of teachers to students to be ideal and thus they can vest their interest in seeing their students succeed and the one which require special need become easily...
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