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crissindahouse on 30 April 2012
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HappySqurriel said:
crissindahouse said:
theprof00 said:
Please don't make the illogical conclusions that government would fail in public education when, for example, Japan has some of the best schooling in the world and all the best schools there are public.

i believe almost all of the best at the pisa studies have public education.


Our education system in Alberta is among the best in the world ( http://education.alberta.ca/admin/testing/nationaltesting.aspx ) and has a mix of public, catholic, charter and private schools.

sry i don't find it in english it's in german:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auswertung_der_PISA-Studien:_Einfluss_des_sozialen_Hintergrunds

this was a comparison between public and private schools and other things with the pisa 2006 results. on private schools, there are more people from families with a better economic status and in most countries, students from this schools were better (sure, they come from "better" families on average with more money) but if you calculate only students with the same economic status between those systems, so poor compared wit poor, working class compared with working class and so on, there was only ONE country where students from private schools were better than the ones from public schools. the country was canada^^ in all other countries, students from public schools were better or exactly as good as students from private schools. ah and they only looked at oecd members.

and even if your private schools for people with more money are better, i bet your public schools are very good as well. if not, you would have only very good or very bad educated in canada and only richer people would have the chance to get a good education for their children (which would be a terrible system).

and if this is correct:

"About 5.6% of students are in private schools", i don't see such a huge difference between the canadian and other countries systems? most go to public schools in canada as well or not? those few percent are also in other countries on private schools.