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Old 11-05-2005, 12:39 AM
Rio_Kohitsuji Rio_Kohitsuji is offline
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I'm currently in my last year of school and this semester I'm at two public schools and one (my first) private school. At the private the scores were off the charts compared to the public school. HOWEVER, the student-teacher ratio at the private is 10:1 while at the public is 30:1. Therefore with less students you can work with them more and more indepth. Also the students who go to the private school have to work, they just can't sit in the back and float through classes like you can many times in some public schools. I'm still torn on this subject. I like the idea of vouchers due to it allows students to recieve a better education. But, if x amount of students leave public schools and go private there will be less students in the public system and teachers will be given the chance to work with them much more and their scores may rise. Since there may be more students in the private setting, teachers may not be able to give the attention they previously could therefore scores may falter.

Okay, I'm now lost on what the heck I just wrote.
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