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Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston
If you understand how admissions works at colleges and universities, you would know how insignificant SAT scores are in today’s acceptances. Most have abandoned its requirement as there are many more metrics out there that are not standardized in nature.... to judge the merits of a prospective student. AP level course load an example! The SAT only intended benefit was to barcode tests to pinpoint problem teachers....fair enough. But that is public bureaucracy at its finest....and it failed.
Your take on private schools clearly is a regional observation, as the majority of private schools have no religious affiliations.....what you’re talking about is parochial school. To say that ’parental involvement’ is higher with parents of private or parochial students vs those of public school parents.....on its face is an ignorant statement.
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My experience is regional, Chicago / Illinois where the teachers union, CTU and NEA is very influential and the educational experience of the student is much less rewarding in the public system. Parents who are willing to pay the tuition for private schools over and above the taxes they pay do so for the most part so their children get a better education and are likewise more involved. The parochial aspect of the education was not as much a motivation factor to most of the parents I have talked with. Taking road trips with my son looking a different colleges, talking to the admissions people you find out just how much a Chicago/Illinois public education is valued and of course also reflected in SAT scores of the students. Opposition to a voucher system is only self protection for the teachers union