So we now know that tuition rates vary depending on the type of high school, but how prepared are students for college? If more money is required, then one can assume that the education is better. As of September of 2015, private schools exceeded the SAT National Benchmark by 99 points, while public schools scored 88 points below it. ACT scores show a similar trend, estimating that 75 percent of public school students meet the core standards for college readiness, as opposed to 81 percent in private schools.
So what does this tell us about this separation in school systems? It tells us that public schools are not meeting the cut. They are sending their students ill prepared to colleges and universities without the proper tools to succeed. Public schools are merely skimming through the surface of the education material required upon graduation, granting their students a great disadvantage in their future. Although both private and public school students have a high school degree, the level of knowledge differs immensely. With private schools overachieving the national demand while the other fails to attain it, one student is prioritized over another. So in concurrence to my last post, the level of college readiness is directly impacted due to the inability of a student to afford the proper tools needed to survive through college.
The statistics mentioned above support that there is something about private high schools that lead us to believe that there is a major underlying reason as to why they have such a high success rate. Could it be due to the usage of a different curriculum?
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