Are private schools better than state schools? Nowadays the education is very important.

Every kid has to go to school to get knowledge, entertainments and more. There are two types of school for children to learn: private school and state school. A lot of families have conditions and give their children to private school. So, are private schools better than state schools? In my opinions, those types of schools also teach for children, and it is the good place for them to improve their knowledge. And the teachers are always expecting their kids will be the useful citizens for society one day in the future. However, state school and private school have some differences. State school is funded by government, so the substructures sometimes arent as good as the private school. We usually see that they always smaller than private school. In contrast, the private school is invested very much for building. Its easy to understand that because the funds they take from the fees. With the large quantities of pupils in state school, the teacher usually cant control and manage children entirely. Otherwise, pupils in private school are rarely crowded, in order that their parents feel safe when they give their kids in the one. How about the learning results? At first, we easily guess that the pupils come from private maybe better than state school. In fact, good results usually come from the learning attitudes and characteristic of them. What if a pupil goes to private school without learning? The achievement only appears for the one who has an inquiring mind, patient...etc... But its not a negative to create a private school. Its very perfect for those who are studying in private school and have the good personality.

It is one of the biggest education conundrums of our time and one of the most hotly debated topics at university, in government and in the community. What are the advantages and disadvantages of private schools and state schools, and is the UK education system inherently unfair?

Prejudice and Advantage

Private school pupils make up only around 7% of UK students (rising to 18% at sixth form level). Yetalmost 45% of successful applicants to our top Oxbridge universities are privately educated. As private schools are a hugely expensive luxury available only to the most affluent, many believe that these statistics are proof of an unfair bias towards the upper classes of UK society. In the current cabinet, Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Chancellor George Osborne (among others) all attended extremely elite private schools including Eton and St. Pauls. Yet the Ipsos Mori poll for the Independent Schools Council showed that only 57% of state school parents would choose to switch to the private system if they were able to afford to. So what are the arguments that steer parents to send their child to a state or private school?

Reasons For Private School Class Sizes

Class sizes tend to be much smaller at private school, with a much better teacher to student ratio. Pupils get much more one-to-one time with teachers and much greater personal attention may be given to an individual students particular academic needs and weaknesses. There is also often a greater amount of support for specific educational needs such as dyslexia and reading difficulties.

Discipline
Alongside smaller class sizes discipline also improves accordingly. At a state school, where class sizes are much larger, it is often harder for teachers to maintain control of a large group of youngsters, whilst private schools, with fewer students in one class, tend to have much better records for discipline. This in turn translates to more quality teaching time and greater time for personal academic attention to be given to individual students.

Results
With top private schools like Eton, Winchester and Harrow topping the academic league tables for A level and GCSE results year after year and sending vast numbers of pupils to Oxbridge, the results of academic exams speak clearly in favour of private schools. But there is much debate about the relative merits of this academic elitism, with many parents believing that a gifted and intellectual child will thrive and be successful in any school, whilst a weaker child may benefit from the extra academic attention at a private school.

Religion
Some religious parents choose a private school because it belongs to a particular denomination and their children will regularly attend services. But whilst most private schools hold regular chapel services, it is now fairly unusual for pupils to attend for religious reasons.

Extra Curricular Activities

Many private schools offer an excellent range of sporting, musical and dramatic extra-curricular activities, with trips abroad to practise modern languages and frequent visits to museums and the theatre. Although the price tag that accompanies these treats is eye-watering, many parents are willing to pay to provide their children with these broadening cultural experiences.

Reasons For State School Elitism

There is a strong general feeling that private schools are elitist and posh, with many denouncing those who attend them as toffs, a charge often levelled at David Cameron. Those who attend private schools often face accusations of snobbery and arrogance, and there is a well-documented problem of private school pupils being bullied on their way home as they are identified by their obligatory school uniforms. Some parents feel that this is too high a price to pay for academic advantage, particularly if it will influence others against their children in later life.

Social Exposure
Many modern parents are concerned with the breadth and complexity of their childrens social experiences, and feel it is important for them to mix and socialise with others from all cultural backgrounds from a young age. They feel strongly that meeting and befriending young people from

all cultures, religions and economic backgrounds is essential to creating a fair, unprejudiced outlook on life.

Political Beliefs
Due to the inherent bias against state school pupils in an education system which favours those who can pay for better teaching, many parents feel strongly that the UK system is unfair and should be changed. It is common for these parents to send their own children to state schools as a matter of principle even if they are financially able to choose private schools if they wanted to. Do you believe one schooling system is better than the other? Have you got personal school experiences to share? Let us know using the form below.

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. Government, namely the Ministry of Education controls annual school budget, which covers by different types of taxes. Moreover, educational grants from government and from different business communities are essential to creative funding. One more important issue is that public schools bear responsibilities to government for each penny, which was spent for something. On the contrary, in private schools all financial affairs are controlled by special person, by accountant. Likewise, private schools can raise tuition, and they also can raise significant amounts of money from a variety of development activities, including annual appeals, cultivation of alumni and alumnae, and solicitation of grants from foundations and corporations (Kennedy, R., n.d.). Not all people have an opportunity to teach their children in very expansive schools, and, of course, nobody wants to pay year by year more and more money. Nevertheless, it is substantiated right of private schools to raise the tuition whenever they want. Also it will cost a pretty penny to attend all school events. Additionally, sometimes families grapple with conundrums during the entrance. The reason is that private schools can and do select their pupils and turn away applicants who do not meet their standards (Shanker, A., 1993). At this very important point public schools are better than private. Many people suppose that pupils enrolled in private schools perform better academically than those attending public schools. "It is not that a kid with money will be a better athlete or better educated, but there is s a good chance that they are going to be" (Baker, M., 2010). The Center on Education Policy (CEP), by the way,

disagrees. According to the CEP study at the equal enrollment of pupils, private school pupils and public school pupils perform equally on achievement tests in math, reading, science, and history. The Center for Education Policy did a special study which is based on analysis of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988-2000). Besides, there was only one difference which CEP found between private schools and public schools. This difference involves SAT (formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test) scores. According to the study, private school pupils have an advantage on the SAT. The CEP notes that this could be because private schools tend to offer more test preparation resources than public schools. (Wenglinsky, H., 2007). Nevertheless, it is not an argument to say exactly that private schools excel public in academic achievements. Contrary to popular belief, we cannot find evidence that private schools actually increase pupils' academic performance. CEF study was based on examination of different school subjects. As it can be seen from the results of this study, at this stage both of schools are equal. It means that there are no differences in academic performance between these types of schools. And one more study proves the equality of academic performance in both types of schools. The results of NAEP's (National Assessment of Educational Progress) examination indicate readiness of pupils to do college-level mathematical tasks. There is 5 percent of public school seniors and only 4 percent of private school seniors (Shanker, A., 1993). Additionally, one research shows that a child with emotional or physical disability would not be best served in a private school. Only about 25 percent offer disability services and 43 percent offer diagnostic services in private schools. In public schools, the percentages are 89 and 83 percent, respectively (Lawrence, L., 1997). Such results of both studies emphasize that opinions of most people about private schools were wrong. The public versus private schools debate is not a situation with an easy answer. During long time a lot of people, especially scientists and researchers try to prove one or another opinion. They show different facts, statistics, make many projects and studies, nevertheless, they cannot to come to common opinion. Most of the people are inclined to point that private schools are better, but in spite of that some people consider that private schools are just luxury, and public can give not worse education. Many families feel that private schools are all socially elite and public schools are all terrible. Nevertheless, the truth is that there are some exemplary public schools and that there is big diversity among private schools (Lawrence, L., 1997). Likewise, the choice of the best educational place for child depends on his or her own capabilities, wishes, needs, and, of course, the final decision is up to parents. Education is the most important goal which we pursue. Therefore, according to different sources the type of the school is not so important. At this point both schools are equal, and public schools are not inferior to private at other stages as well. In conclusion it is necessary to say that people should look through all information about both types of schools, compare it, and realize that there are no so enormous differences between them.