| vlad321 said: Then again my public school was in the top 100 of Newsweek every year, so guess that's just anecdotal evidence. I just know I loved scoring higher on every single competition (math/scince/coding mostly) than the people from the local private schools. As did just about everyone who went to those from our school. Although if you look at Georgia Institue of Technology, it's in the top 10 schools in the US for several categories. |
Well the problem is you've got a bunch of "poor" schools pulling you down. Which is the main problem of public schools. Not that the good schools aren't good.
It's that the bad schools are bad... and there is little incentive to really fix them. Since nobody really loses their jobs over it... and they have a monopoly.
I mean on every standardized test we took in my public school we scored higher then the district, which scored higher then the state, which scored higher then the country.
The problem was... I could drive 15 minutes to a crappy school, that spent way more money per student then my school yet still didn't have enough desks let alone competent teaching of any sort.
