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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d20fool" data-source="post: 2040231" data-attributes="member: 5956">Private school mythsA. Thank you for agreeing with me on teacher pay.  You wouldn't believe the arguments against it.B. Private schools vary widely in quality of education.  Students I receive from our local private schools often have trouble being independent and there is apparently no training in writing whatsoever other than copying out of a book.  That's just here though.  There are some private schools that are excellent and their reputation seems to shine for all private schools.  This is not the case.  Private schools often have less money than public schools do, less qualified teachers, fewer and older books, etc.  Private schools are often more about agenda, political and religious, than education.To give credit where it is due, I have had two students with severe problems go to private schools and do much better.  The very small class size was helpful.  Further, we have students called "tweeners" who have academic problems but don't qualify for special services that would benefit from a small classroom vs. a larger public classroom.  I have to admit that.  Private schools do not have ANY of the safeguards and guarentees public school does.  Kid accused of a crime he didn't committ (seen it happen), he can't come to our school.  Wrong color or religion (seen that happen too), she's not welcome here.  Severe learning disability, no can do.  As for accountability, if you have a compliant, your child suddenly becomes "unsuitable" and you have no legal recourse.  Seen that happen as well.  However, if you have a compliant about public school, you can lots.  You can petition the school board, write your congressman, get a lawyer.  I had one parent, angry over a state law that almost kept her A honor roll grandson in 5th grade a second year (low reading level) run for the school board where she's been for the last 4 years.  You have LOTS of power in your local schools, just take it.  I've seens groups of parents do very serious amounts of damage.As for tenure, I can think of only two teachers in my time who needed to get the boot but couldn't because of tenure.  A move for a review system across many states will take care of that.  Honestly, there's not a hoard of "bad" teachers out there bogging the system down and it is too easy for a principal to run off any teacher they don't want anyway.  That is what happened to those two teachers, BTW.  John "d20fool" McCarty</blockquote>

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