No, it's true. I was literally friends with a boy in school who was kicked out of his private religious school (for behavior reasons). Private schools absolutely discriminate in who they take.
No, things like a bloated administration and support staff.
...we'll ignore administration for a second...do you have any idea what support staff do? Why they are important? Why there are more of them than there used to be? I'll give you a hint...a significant part of it goes back to the students with disabilities I mentioned earlier.
You should look then. Here's a chart for you though
The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private...
nces.ed.gov
What state am I looking for? Also, I'm VERY curious who all is included in the "All Staff" category. I do appreciate the source but you do understand that support staff is often in classroom positions, correct? For example, one of our special education classrooms will have a certificated instructor and two or three aides who are there to assist in education. But those aides would not be included in the certificated teachers column (which I know for a fact the "Teachers" column represents because I cross checked it with DESE's website).
So...without knowing exactly who is included in "all staff", I do not believe your source supports your initial claim that "half the employees are in non classroom positions".
Sure - probably in specialized or magnet schools.
Nope. Straight public schools like the ones we're discussing. Here's a link to school enrollments in Missouri (I believe every public school will be on the list, but there will be some private schools who are not):
Missouri High School Sports and Activities
www.mshsaa.org
Notice how many come in under 100 students in grades 9-12.
It's a lot harder to simply coast in a private school.
No, it is not. And that's coming directly from my father, who has taught in both public and private schools. Again, it depends entirely on the school itself.
There is a certain amount of competition there - and these schools don't want to keep poor performing teachers.
No one wants to keep poor performing teachers. That doesn't make private schools special or unique.
LOL - you would loose that bet.
Not based on the posts you've provided in this thread thus far.
No you haven't. You've provided empty rhetoric, false claims, and meaningless statements that apply to nearly all schools.
You want to keep tossing out and ignoring the reasons why many private (and I would add charter) schools are better than the majority of public schools.
Because they are not. Because if they dealt with the same students public schools deal with, they would fare no better and likely much worse than the public schools. But because private schools discriminate in which students they allow to enter their school, they can create the myth that the school is somehow better.
As I said several times - selection of students (the parents have to want to put their kids there) is a factor, but hardly the only one.
It's easily the biggest one. Again, Johnny is doing no better in the private school than in the public school. But the private school doesn't have to take Johnny.
Why should parents who want to take advantage of those opportunities -- and use the education dollars for their students to help make that choice - be denied?
No one is saying parents cannot put their kids into private school, we're just saying they shouldn't get to use taxpayer money to do it.