private school is better than public school

Do not mind those shouting "public school", the standard of Education is retrogressing genarally- both private and public schools. I have seen many students failing WAEC, NECO and JAMB, from those high brow schools located in the Lekki axis where you pay school fees in millions of naira. Meanwhile year in year out, the overall best students for these exams almost always comes from public schools. To me the best schools are the first generation of Public schools, like kings college, Queens college and federal government colleges. Command Secondary Schools are also not bad ( you have to know someone in the military though). Model colleges are just there. I feel Private schools give a better all round education, that those elite schools where your child will only be exposed to a narrow range of people ( People within the narrow range of class the school provides for). Mind you, it would be unthinkable to send your child to most of the state schools unless you are preparing your child for a career as an "Agbero". Having said these, the most important aspect of child education is parental education. With a good parental guidance, a child in a moderately good school (private or public) will excel, while a child in British - American College but with no parental guidance will likely perform poorly. This school costs over $8,000 per year and we are not wealthy. Our four-year-old son also seems gifted and I need to consider offering this to him, too. If there is a clear benefit in the private school, we will find a way for this to happen. How important is this overall? Is there hard evidence that gifted kids do better in a private school setting when the class size and demographics are similar to those I described? Can you steer me towards any articles that touch on this? Will I significantly hurt my son if I place him first in the public system, and allow him to change schools in a few years when money is (hopefully) more plentiful? Is there an optimum age for a gifted child to move to this smaller class structure? Are there programs that my public school may not be offering us that we may be entitled to now that she has been identified, and how do I go about finding this information? I want to do what is best for my kids. If there is a clear benefit in the private school we will find a way for this to happen. I just need to know how important this is, overall. Thank you so much for your help and advice. A: In North Carolina, each district is required to have a plan for gifted education. Your first step is to get a copy of this plan and to read it carefully to see what options can be made available to your daughter and later to your son. Although your child only receives formal services for one hour a week she should be getting additional support through curriculum differentiation in her general education classroom. Ask to meet with her teacher and the gifted specialist to develop a differentiated education plan outlining how her needs will be met in reading and math, and what extended learning opportunities she will receive. Can she work with a class a grade or two ahead? Is there a junior Great Books program for reading enrichment? What computer software is available for her to use? Will the teacher agree to use curriculum compacting to adjust the pace of your child's learning? Private schools may be an option -- and may be where you end up -- but I would not rush into this decision without exploring how to increase the services offered by the public schools. There is no evidence that gifted children do better in private vs. public schools. They do best when their needs are met, and there is likely more that can be done right now in her current school.If we look at the past, we would find that in the world did not have schools at all or even printed books. History of nations depended on poets, elders, and other "storytellers" so as to save in memory important facts. Until the middle ages, most information was transmitted orally, as there were very few books, also books which existed were written by hand. Furthermore, not everyone can afford such expensive things. Majority of school systems which we can view today first appeared in Europe. Not everyone knows that on the western, the first "system" was the many monasteries that were spread across Europe. Moreover almost of the first schools around the world were based on religion. All of us have seen in history books images of the one-room schoolhouses that were built for children in every community. Thus, more and more communities enacted laws that required children to be in school. So, "compulsory" education was born (Reid, C., n.d.). So, step by step people develop educational system, they always tried to invent something new. Gradually schools divides on two groups, private and public schools. Since that moment a lot of parents got an opportunity to choose type of the school for their children. Nowadays when children reach school age, parents start to think about future and finally they try to find the best education. School it is the first and the main step in children's life. Private or public school? Witch of this two schools should parents choose? Both types of school have advantages and disadvantages, nevertheless, they do not prove the quality of education. Of course private schools have many benefits which make pupils' life better and easier. In some private schools more comfortable to study than at many colleges and universities. For example, Hotchkiss and Andover have libraries and athletic facilities which are equal with those at Brown and Cornell. They also offer academic and sports programs which make full use of all those resources. It is hard to find comparable facilities in the public sector. They are few and far between. Some public schools have slightly similar resources, namely good libraries and sport facilities, nevertheless, private schools exude. Usually private schools win when we mean the size of classes. One of the key moments of better education is individual attention, because children need pupil to teacher ratios of 15:1. In public schools you will find much larger class sizes, sometimes exceeding 35-40 pupils. At this point teaching quickly degenerates. Actually, private schools prefer hire teachers with advanced degrees in their subject. Or in simple words, when a private school is hiring a Spanish teacher it will want a teacher who has a degree in Spanish language and in literature as well (Kennedy, R., n.d.). One more important aspect is that some parents want their children to have religious education. Public schools cannot give it, because the list of subjects and classes is fixed by the Ministry of Education. Besides, some children want to learn some elective courses, for instance dance, music, art, piano classes, which also are not included in the list of public schools' subjects and classes. Other important issue is laws which are directly connected to children's rights. Unfortunately, not all teachers at public schools know them very well, and they even break them very often. Usually parents expect that all teachers and administrators are already familiar with the regulations, but that is not always true. Many public schools' teachers do not know the laws and will not provide necessary assistance. It is up to parents to learn their child's rights and educate the educators (Harrell, C., 2009). Of course, all of these aspects are integral part and parcel of good educational system. They help pupils to make their educational process simpler, better and more interesting. All parents wish only best things for their children. Therefore, according to these facilities and conveniences, parents' selection can be fixed upon private schools. Public schools have a lot of advantages, namely lower costs and governmental support. Cost of education in public schools is the main advantage, because it is free. thank u