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Originally Posted by GGG
There was a recent case of this in Calgary where a private schools marks consistently had higher gaps between the 50% of the school grades than the diploma exam grade. At least with central marking you can identify these trends.
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This is actually one reason why I would advocate against private schools. Teachers in private schools are not paid any more and aren't trained much differently.
But parents in those schools pay large sums of money for teachers to do the same job they would in public education. So I would think that there would be increased outside pressure to generate results.
"If I paid x dollars, I should see x results." What happens when people who are used to paying for things and getting them don't get what they thought they would.
Not all parents choose private education for this reason though, sometimes, it's a logistical issue, sometimes the local schools are full and bussing is garbage, sometimes kids have such distinct needs the public system cannot do justice for them and alternatives have to be explored.
Choice is good, but at extremes it can be abused.