Private schools are often filled with rich students whose parents feel that the private schools far surpass the public schools. Their kids, they say, are much better off there. The rich parents make it well known that the quality of education their students have at private schools is much better than all the rest. However, these rich people can be a problem. Many students but by no means all have attitude problems- snobbishness, laziness, or dependency on others. The parents tend to complain more for obvious reasons- this education is costing them a lot.
The school itself is usually very nice. At many private schools there are boarding students who live right at the school itself. Sometimes the teachers live on site too. This can be either positive or negative depending on your marital status and the quality of the food The class sizes are small and the campuses are beautiful. However, because of all the money spent on things like this, the salaries of the teachers seem to be lower than those of public school teachers.
The students tend to be intelligent because private schools are selective in their admissions process. However, I know more than one rich dad who was willing to pay full price and who got his son into a private school even though his marks were very low. The parent and teachers and principals are in a battle now that it is the end of the year: the school wants him out but the parents want him to stay in the school.
Many teachers who have experience at private schools tell me that the students are more respectful there. Whether it is because they have stricter rules, or the students are more polite, or they realize that being there is a privilege and not a right; they are better behaved. They will stand up when a teacher walks in and not sit down until he says so. Also they are less apt to whine and complain about the lessons and assignments.
Private schools, at least here in Ontario, do not require their teachers to have the same qualifications as teachers in public schools. This means that education may not be of as high a quality as it is in public schools. Because of the small class sizes, teachers have to work extra hard to prepare the
