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Originally Posted by Edify_Always_In_All_Ways  The 'better schools' are better because they have the ability to select their student body- if you switched the population of a public and a private school in kindergarten, I'm willing to wager that the public-school students would have better test scores than the others pretty soon. |
I think there's a bit more to it than that - better teachers, better facilities, wider variety of programs, better guidance counselors, etc. All of these are incredibly important things that private schools offer that public schools often can't.