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Quote by: CoffeeSaint  Catholic schools do better because they have smaller class sizes, fewer bureaucratic restrictions and obligations, and (most important) the support of interested, involved parents who believe in education. Give public schools these things, and the results would be similar. |
Private schools perform better because they have control over what they allow and who they accept. If they had to follow the same rules as public schools, they'd be no better than public schools. In a private school, if you have a disruptive student, you can expel them. Public schools do not have that option. In fact, the students have to do something criminal and be prosecuted in order to have them removed from the school, something that private schools simply do not have to face.
It's really ludicrous to compare public and private schools because they are two completely different animals. Until they have to follow the same rules, there simply is no comparison.