Private school only helps if a family’s income is high
“If you want to predict children’s outcomes — achievement test scores, the things we care about socially — in high school, the best thing that you can use to predict that is going to be family income,”. In addition to being one of the authors of the study, Pianta is the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. “Regardless of what high school you go to, the best predictor is going to be family background.
As a poor kid who went to private school , I can attest that my parents often couldn’t afford all of the other extra educational enrichments that the other students’ parents could. According to Pianta, the ability to afford these extras are what really have a determining factor in a child’s success.
I attended private schools from kindergarten through high school, and I received a wonderful academic education. One part that was lacking, though, was exposure to kids from varied socioeconomic backgrounds.
So, maybe now could we please raise the minimum wage?