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If grades schools will have a financial incentive to inflate more than public schools. What metric do parents use? Grades, bullying? This means parents don't have as much leverage as I first statedĤ. Children are young AND emotional, stability is probably ideal.

School isn't where you buy gas or go to the gym. Changing schools could be traumatic for a child because they made friends, comfortable with teachers, familiar with the school. Yes it's a serious product (child's education) but factor in my points.ģ. It's a constant theme here where we complain about the general public continuing to use substandard products. "Customers take their money and leave" doesn't seem to happen that often with every other business. Unlike grocery stores or gas stations how many schools would be within reasonable distance where a parent could easily change.Ģ. I want to temper my statment about parent's changing schools becauseġ. Why wouldn't this apply to private schools especially because in that situation parent's have financial leverage?Īnother comment said that private schools have an incentive to provide a good service otherwise people will take their money and leave. "Proactive parents will typically want their children in good schools, regardless of their child's behavioural history" Related to that, schools rarely have the resources to distinguish between students who would benefit from integration and those who would benefit from specialized and separate programs. More often, with a bunch of mediocre teachers. Where does that leave the challenging schools? If they're lucky, with a great teacher. Think of it this way: even though some of the best teachers may want to serve the most challenging schools, good teachers almost always want to teach in good schools. I don't know if this has to be the case, but it has been historically true. There is an overarching philosophy within the school system that integration is better than separation. It simply means they want their children to have access to better supports.)

(This doesn't mean they refuse to acknowledge the issue, though some will. Proactive parents will typically want their children in good schools, regardless of their child's behavioural history. Except you run into a few problems when implementing that, especially for public schools.