Since the times of the Jesuits, private schools have typically outperformed public schools both educationally and with prestige. What happens in most cases, in the classrooms of teachers readily conforming to the expectations of school principals (who are more concerned with the number of students certified as passing from one grade to the next, than with whether those students have actually met the academic standards for promotion) is an unfortunate toleration of unsocialized disruptive students that persistently make academic instruction and learning very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve.
On the state side, even when states provide substantial supplemental funding …
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