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Originally Posted by fotze
I think people do it for the odds. Kid will have a 30% better chance. If I have a dumb kid, he will be much less dumb with better schooling.
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In my personal experience I went to a private school for jr. high and every single kid from that class(30-35 kids) made it into post secondary(95% into university, the rest to MRU and such). Out of the same kids I would have been in jr. high with if I wasn't switched to a private school(about 100-125 people), about 25-35% of them moved onto post-secondary.
Granted the sample size is quite small, but I'd be willing to bank on those results would be similar to other people's experiences.
If you're sending your kid to private school, the chances are you're upper class and your kid will end up in post-secondary anyways, or you value education and you'll make sure your kid ends up in post-secondary. Either way, it's an entirely different parental mindset than the "set it and forget it" mentality of majority of parents who send their kids to the public/separate system, and your kid will probably be better off for it
Edit: to keep this post semi on topic, I heard Waldorf doesn't allow clocks in the classroom or something like that? When was I going to school their sports teams would always have the wierdest warm-up rituals. Bunch of kooks