Was this in Sydney? Bradfield High?I went to a private school from years 7-10 and then went to public for 11-12.
Although a complicated story in full, I didn't thrive in the private school; academically or socially I really struggled with it and locked horns with a lot of teachers and students.
Now it's worth noting that the 11-12 School I attended only did years 11 and 12 at the time, and it had a very "University" feel to it, where you were driving your education and they were facilitating you in achieving that. But I flourished in that environment, as did most of my peers who made the switch at the time.
TL;DR it's going to vary from child to child and teacher to teacher. Hopefully you can find a match somewhere.
Maybe this is where I see the opportunity coming from - just mixing in different circles...But if you’re only interested in academic achievement, the results from most of the 30-odd Australian studies since 2000 suggest that private schools are no better at progressing students’ learning than state schools, once you’ve controlled for socioeconomic background. That’s also been the case for Australia’s results in the past three Pisa tests, the OECD’s international comparison test for student learning.
“On average private schools superficially appear to achieve higher student outcomes,” concedes education researcher and public schools advocate Trevor Cobbold. “But public schools enrol the vast majority of disadvantaged students … and this is what largely accounts for differences in school outcomes.”
The research shows that good schooling makes more of a difference in primary school.I went to both public and private. Results are going to vary with both. My older bros went public all the way and did well academically. My latter years were private schooling. I don’t think it benefited me academically in the end. There were some good teachers and some shit ones. Think going there made my parents feel better about themselves.
I think it makes fuck all difference a couple of years out. I’d like to see a measure that shows kids who go to private school do better later in life. I don’t think it will exist.
Thats the demographic push factor.'Bespoke education': are Australia's private schools worth the price tag?
Research points to individual school culture being more important than if a school is public or privatewww.theguardian.com
Maybe this is where I see the opportunity coming from - just mixing in different circles...
Melbourne high?I had the privilege of going to a very very good public school. This unfortunately meant that I had to associate with private school students predominantly. I have some great friends from those schools, but 90% of the students that I had to associate with from those schools were shaping up to be, and actively demonstrating that they were going to become, the worst type of entitled, shitstain humans on the planet. The culture (that I could see as an outsider) that was so deeply coveted and massaged at those places was absolutely fucking disgusting.
That being said, if I had a child that was actively requesting they attend one of those hopeless establishments then I would do everything I could to get them there. But it would probably be financially impossible. Aaaand the second they even hinted at not wanting to be there they would be out and i'd be asking for a fee refund.