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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Private schools in Canada and the US are based on dollars.
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Yep. I think people who have no experience with the inner workings of a private school would be absolutely shocked at just how much money gets poured into things that have little to no benefit to the students.
Some of the more prestigious private schools that I'm familiar with each spend millions of dollars every year simply in an effort to attract future students and keep the money flowing. They send people all around the world to try to recruit prospective students to the school and they spend a fortune upgrading already adequate facilities to try to try to outdo competitors. And none of that has any real educational benefit.
I can't help at chuckle whenever I hear people talk about how much more efficient private education would be. When you're forced to compete for students you either need to charge a high enough tuition that there's money to do that or you need to divert money from actual education and put it into PR. And that's what we're seeing in Sweden where lower standards and pay means they can barely attract enough warm bodies to fill teaching vacancies. Compare that to their neighbors in Finland where teachers are rigorously trained and well supported.