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Originally Posted by fotze
I think private school will not aid the future 'good student' but it will protect against the downside of a future 'poor academic student'. You are not increasing the kids upside, you are limiting their downside. There is no way you are going to become a ACAD student if you go to Tweedsmuir, but you may become one going to Western. You essentially eliminate all potential poor influence ont he kid.
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This right here. Going to STS definitely gave me a big leg up in first year university, as it seems to take a lot of students about a year to realize how to study for university while STS really prepared me well for that style of work. After people figure it out everyone is on the same level when it comes to studying.
Biggest thing though is in my graduating class, I think maybe 3 people went into a program like Emily Carr or apprenticeship program, everyone else went onto Canadian and American universities. I guarantee if some of those people in my class were in public school they never would have gotten the chance to go to university or any post secondary education.