Re:Measure results, not hours
by Evbn on Saturday October 06, 2012 @10:28PM
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Private schools are mostly the same structurally, they just have better tracking/pace since class sizes are smaller, and they can exclude disruptive students.
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Tracking, pace, small class sizes, and excluding disruptive students makes ALL the difference.
It's the difference between a bespoke education delivered by an excellent teacher, and a shit cookie cutter education delivered by a scantron machine.
I don't disagree with you. Buy private shools aren't bespoke tutoring in the tradition of the European aristocracy or student-driven explorations of the world, they are the same lecture/ work/ small project/ test structure of public schools.
The extra teaching resources are there and available for students that want or need them. Most students just care not to.
Montessori schools do not follow the assembly-line model of education.
Montessori schools are all private because institutionalized educational systems aren't interested in switching their fundamental philosophy of education. There is one exception, the Milwaukee school system. I'm not aware of other places that have tried the same.