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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by chrisseaton on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:34PM (#27565553)
> It’s my understanding that private schools play a minor role in other countries.

Huh my understanding is the opposite!

Almost everyone in the US seems to go to public school. Nobody seems to talk about where they went to school - they just went to where was by their home. For example this list of privileged people at Beverly Hills High School is extraordinary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_High_School#Nota...

The US public school system seems to be doing extraordinarily well here - in almost every other country these rich people would have been in a private school wouldn't they? The US system seems unusually egalitarian.

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