Re: [Phys-L] Private schools

["Anthony Lapinski" <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org>]

I teach in a private school in New Jersey. We enjoy the autonomy, small
class sizes, bright students, supportive parents, long breaks, high dept
budgets, etc. We love our students and our teaching environment; the
salary is secondary. It's relatively rare for our teachers to leave for
public schools. I certainly would never do that, no matter what the salary.

Maybe things are different down in Texas...


Phys-L@Phys-L.org writes:
> No way.  The private schools ape the public schools.  The metastudy of
> different types of schools showed that on average private schoold did not
> do
> better than public schools.  Believe me, I have seen that the teaching is
> not that different.  Because of the lower salaries at many private schools
> they lose teachers to the public schools.  Some private school systems are
> sub par.  The Catholic schools scored lower in math, but Lutheran schools
> scored higher.  Go figure.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
>
> > This all assumes "we" are teaching thinking and practice in 
> > addition to physics "factoids".   Only private schools may do this?
>
>
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