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school every morning- ones that I will not soon forget. From age four to age fourteen, my school day invariably began with these words. From my childhood years up to my early teenage years, I attended Holy Family School, a remarkably small, close-knit private school which seemed appropriate for the town of 4,000 people that it was situated in. The ten years I spent in that undersized school building meant a lot to me, after all, they shaped the way I interpreted the world and the people in it.…

As an international student, I attended a private high school, which was Fairmont Preparatory Academy in Anaheim. My high school has about 500 students and most of them are international students from China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea,… Fairmont Prep offers twenty-three AP courses, which are AP Calculus AB, Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP Physic, AP Biology,… Fairmont Prep is one of a few Orange County private school provides IB courses. It offers twenty-one IB courses including Spanish IB, English IB…

As much as we hate to admit it, America 's education system is extremely flawed, even in the year 2016. Of course as much as we try to ignore the issue on sight, there is no denying that there are several factors that play into the role of a child’s education here in the United States. Circumstances such as how much money their parents make, whether or not their parents attended school all the way through (Or chose to drop out), or even what part of an area they live in play such a monumental…

In Li Zhang’s book In Search of Paradise: Middle-class Living in a Chinese Metropolis, she discusses the changes that have developed as a result of the newly developed middle-class in modern China. These new developments have changed the ways that Chinese citizens are thinking about privacy, consumption, advertising and how they are determining their self-worth. These changes have been influenced by reforms such as changes to people’s ability to own property and have allowed them to better…

States is more than capable of raising it’s ranking, but the question arises as to how this can be done. Further, the question becomes as to whether expanding school choice is the direction to go. With there being 98,328 public schools and 30,861 private schools in the country in the 2011 to 2012 school year the sheer number of schools can cause one to believe that expanding schools is not the direction…

When I was ten years old I left public school and attended a private school. At the private school every hour of the day was scheduled and the students had no choice in classes and activities. For example, we had no option on what to do during recess; it was already picked for us. Field trips were limited to a teacher’s farm…

whether to send them to private or public school. Do you enroll your child in an expensive school? Or do you enroll them in a public school in order to save money down the road for college? Will your child still get quality education in order to survive in life and what is the best choice? These are just some of the questions parents have to consider before enrolling their child. There are certain factors that indicate that private schools have a better quality…

moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2005. Following her husband’s desire to move back to his home state, Nancy left her decades-long teaching career in the New York City Public School System. As she adjusted to life to her new home and worked in a private school, she would often pass by the Gardere neighborhood. As she built relationships with parents living in Gardere, she found that several students were struggling academically in the public school system. Out of a concern for these people…

Private healthcare (for profit) does not raise the quality of overall care for patients. Private healthcare costs more per year, as opposed to public healthcare, however. Even with more spending, private health care is unable to provide insurance coverage for the entirety of citizens. Along with private healthcare prioritizing in emergency care, which ultimately costs the insurance company more as it is more expensive to help someone in immediate need than it is to prevent someone from getting…

Parent Teacher Associations and fundraising are present in schools throughout the country. It may be, however, that private funding for schools by parents and charities widens the gap between poor and rich schools. In “How Rich Parents Can Exacerbate School Inequality” published in The Atlantic, author Laura McKenna explains the reasons of those who support and those who discourage this type of financial assistance. This article is formal, with little deviation from the facts and arguments, and…