Private school success due to better students, not schools
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:31 am
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/private-s ... -1.3016123
Motivation is everything, and that is something that can't be taught or instilled, despite what some nimrods running the system think. It has to come from within.
andyt @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:40 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/private-school-success-due-to-better-students-not-better-schools-statscan-1.3016123
Motivation is everything, and that is something that can't be taught or instilled, despite what some nimrods running the system think. It has to come from within.
Motivation is everything, and that is something that can't be taught or instilled, despite what some nimrods running the system think. It has to come from within.
Sure sure, because this:
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"Two factors consistently account for these differences," the report released on Tuesday said. "Students who attended private high schools were more likely to have socio-economic characteristics positively associated with academic success and to have school peers with university-educated parents."
has nothing to do with it. Ie not some intrinsic trait (genetic superiority of private school students?) but external factors like the fact your parents are able to support you academically and enrich your learning opportunities and you're in a class with people from the same background instead of having all sorts of special needs students in your class taking the teacher's attention. No, no, it's some inborn trait of the elite. As for success in later life, the connections the parents have has nothing to do with that either.
Zipperfish @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:50 am
I'd have my kids in a private school if I could afford it. Not that public is that bad, I just think I would have more influence, and there would be more opportunities. As it is I have to teach my kids math and science. I don't actually mind, I just wish they'd do more of it at school.
andyt @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:53 am
Too busy dealing with all the problem children in public school. Larger class sizes, continual cutbacks by the Liberals. Private schools select for higher achievers and put them all in the same class - of course they will do better. With what Christie Clark is doing to the school system, I couldn't blame any parent for putting their kid in the same school Hamish Clark goes to.
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:55 am
Andy is just projecting....his failure to achieve a modicum of success in life is the result of others having an unfair advantage over him....couldn't be his own inadequacies.
Now back to important matters.
andyt @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:59 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Andy is just projecting....his failure to achieve a modicum of success in life is the result of others having an unfair advantage over him....couldn't be his own inadequacies.
Now back to important matters.
Now back to important matters.
So somebody counters your argument and you fling shit. Weak.
Zipperfish @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:04 am
andyt andyt:
Too busy dealing with all the problem children in public school. Larger class sizes, continual cutbacks by the Liberals. Private schools select for higher achievers and put them all in the same class - of course they will do better. With what Christie Clark is doing to the school system, I couldn't blame any parent for putting their kid in the same school Hamish Clark goes to.
They just have a one size fits all approach. I don't mind that my kids have to go to class with kids with other kids with handicaps and difficulties. That's life.
They are definitely doing a number on the school system. I don't think she and her cohorts care very much--all their kids go to private schools. The Liberal approach is the same for school boards as it is for Translink--starve the system and then blame the local boards.
Regina @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:06 am
What counter? ![[huh]](./images/smilies/icon_scratch.gif "huh?"){kind=icon}
andyt @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:06 am
Oh, they care. The want to decimate the public system. It's why they keep increasing funding to private schools and cutting back on the public ones. Break the teacher's union, turn us into the US.
martin14 @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:12 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Andy is just projecting....his failure to achieve a modicum of success in life is the result of others having an unfair advantage over him....couldn't be his own inadequacies.
Now back to important matters.
Now back to important matters.
Even during Communism, the better people found a way to work the system,
have better kids, and motivate them to achieve better things.
It's the way things are.
When it makes andy angry, who cares.
Zipperfish @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:13 am
andyt andyt:
Oh, they care. The want to decimate the public system. It's why they keep increasing funding to private schools and cutting back on the public ones. Break the teacher's union, turn us into the US.
Yeah. no disagreement there.
Regina @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:34 am
andyt andyt:
Oh, they care. The want to decimate the public system. It's why they keep increasing funding to private schools and cutting back on the public ones. Break the teacher's union, turn us into the US.
What cutbacks? Schools here have less students than ever and teachers make more money than ever and keep getting raises every time they ask. Thousands of new grads yearly that want to get into that club too. The Ontario teachers union is one of the largest, most wealthy and powerful unions in Canada.
Sounds like they're taking a real beating.
andyt @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:38 am
WTF does Ontario have to do with BC? Idiot.
Regina @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:54 am
andyt andyt:
WTF does Ontario have to do with BC? Idiot.
Again you must have failed to read the story because it was a Canadian study. If you are just posting your own personal failures then you should start another thread..........because andy you have fuck all knowledge outside of the coffee shop.
andyt @ Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:56 am
Zip and I were discussing the BC situation. YOu want to horn in, at least know what we're talking about. I don't need a Canadian study to tell me what's going on in BC schools.