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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Well yeah, that's what happens when you can cherry-pick the best students, not have to put resources into kids with learning or behavioural issues, and you can provide class sizes much smaller than the public system. The question is whether those private businesses should receive money diverted from a public system that has to provide education for all children.
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This school doesn't actually cherry pick the kids. It was started by a local business owner who thought schooling in the area for his employees could be better. As part of working for that company, the company subsidizes tuition at the school. The other kids come from people who pay tuition. There is no entrance exam or anything. Only a handful of kids (the scholarship kids) are "cherry picked" so to speak and they may not be cherry picked because of grades but for other reasons (excel at arts and even simply by applying but needing assistance etc).
The bulk of the student population comes from a mix of blue collar to white collar families just like every school. The reason the kids perform well compared to the public schools isn't because of financial characteristics of the school parents (which doesn't actually differ by much in the end) but because the school is better and the parents likely do care more about education when taken as a whole.