Teacher here, but I teach middle school. First and foremost, any stats or anecdotes prior to Covid are useless and irrelevant. Covid shook education to its core. It resulted in a fast shift in political climate, teacher credential changes, school safety changes, use of tech in the classroom changes, and many more. I sent my own kid to private high school and she graduated in 2020. Now, just three years later, her alma mater is unrecognizable to me. While some things have little to no impact (such as the post-pandemic relaxed dress code), others are huge. For example, her high school embraced online curriculum and never looked back. In many cases the teachers are merely a facilitator and classroom monitor. For self-motivated kids this can be great as they move at their pace through the curriculum, sometimes getting much further ahead than when the whole class moved at the same pace. For other kids it can be a soul-crushing day of staring at a screen with too little human interaction. This is just one specific example. I absolutely feel like you need to tour the school in question while it is in session. Observe. Ask questions. Meet teachers. I don’t think anyone can give you generalizations about public vs. private that will be helpful at all. Really, every school is different and you just have to dig in and find answers about the schools you are considering.
Statistics: Posted by momvesting — Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:03 pm — Replies 69 — Views 4178