Government controlled ANYTHING is less effective than it's private counterpart (except the Military - but they have basically a blank check.....). People from private schools test higher and achieve more on a regular basis. It's more of a shot at being indoctrinated by your school and being brought up to preserve the power of those that doled the money out.
Since you can't figure that out, I'll just call it ironic that your school didn't teach you basic cognitive skills.
Amazing that us little people don't pay you much mind. Shocker, right? Next time, we will try to follow your every move in hopes that we can learn from someone that can't even figure out that government schools are inferior to the private counterparts, and often times, have less money to do it with.
Ahhh yes, accusing me of "cognitive" skill difficulty but let's analyze your claim about private school children testing out higher.
1. Did your analysis control for exogenous variables that might skew the statistical results? Here are some.
a. Drive of the parents. The #1 input into the quality of a kid's education is the drive of the parents. Naturally, parents who are going to put their kids into private schools will also be willing to put more effort into making sure they do well. This will result in more drive for the kids and result in better test scores.
b. However, not all parents can afford the money, or time, for private schools. I'm sure you could say that the taxes saved would result in more money to those who need it. However, the people at those SES levels would be hard pressed to come up with the money and, ironically, that would result in less time to spend with the kid to drive them to better results.
c. Those kids who can get into private schools (tests themselves) and can make it through, will naturally score better. However not all kids can get in and since if they did, A and B would kick in. Furthermore, as more kids came in the schools would be commoditized, resulting in lower overall test scores.
d. Those who can afford the private schools are also likely going to be smarter, as they have already achieved the SES levels needed to get there (or their parents have, who would likely be smarter). So is it the private schools making the difference or the raw material?
Overall, the key differentials in private schools won't be the schools themselves. It will be the parents involvement (which will be very important) and the key genetic material. To prove this you only need to look at schools where studies that examine parent involvement in the education is taken into account. They show a striking correlation, even Bill Cosby has noted this in his railing against african american families. I know that Fairfield county CT schools show an interesting situation. In higher SES areas test scores are far better, even in public schools.
For example, in Stamford, test scores suck compared to Greenwich. This is mostly due to the working family situation in a large portion of Stamford, combined with lower parental involvement and spanish speaking issues.
Compare that to Fairfield CT, where that school system is one of the best in the country. Taxes for them are high but parental involvement is also one of the highest in the country. As a result a massive portion of children go to college compared to the average.
How can that happen with a public school?
Would you claim that private universities, such as Devry, are overall better? They are private and are cost+ educations. However, overall, they product inferior products that end up fucking students with higher cost educations that deliver little.
2. Did you account for the fact that *ALL* people should have an opportunity at education? It should be a right to be educated if one so desires. Furthermore, it's only to our benefit that all of society does become educated. There is a direct correlation between education and the ability to make more money and be less prone to crime. Thus, society benefits in those two, among a multitude of other ways.
If it were any other way you'd slowly get a caste system whereby the lower castes became uneducated and more akin to serfs. This would eventually topple the country as they became more angered at the disparity.
I do love these types of debates. I grew up in a 9 rated school district by Great Schools.com. My public school wasn't great but it offered a very good relative education. I went to a public university (Big 10) for a psych/history undergrad. Immediately after that I got an MBA from another public university. 3 years later I earned my CFA charter.
How could I have done any of that through these "Shitty" public schools? How is that possible with such trash?
Ohh wait, it's because both of my parents were college educated (first generation), although neither used their educations much (both blue-collar union workers). Both of them drove me to do well in school. Both helped me through classes. Both encouraged me through all of my education.
However, would I have been able to go to a private school? Probably not, my parents didn't make enough money.
I could go on and on and on destroying your "private school is better" argument. However, I strongly suspect you lack the same skill you claimed I did (cognitive abilities) to fully grasp how profoundly stupid you are.
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