Why Consider Private Schools?

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Why Consider a Private School?

Many parents feel that their children will technology to facilitate in class and virtual thrive better in what they believe is a instruction. Rest assured, promise school experts, smaller, safer environment with more room there is a school out there to suit every child. for personal attention. And while public schools There are two primary sorts of private schools— must follow a curriculum heavily influenced by independent schools and parochial schools. state standards, private schools have more freedom INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS are defined as to customize lessons to students’ individual ways nonprofit private schools with their own governing of learning. board of trustees. While most people commonly

Private schools can also point to low student- refer to independent schools as private, lumping teacher ratios, freedom from state standards them in with parochial and for-profit schools, they and testing, and lots of extras like music, foreign are distinct because they are nonprofit and selflanguages, and art that are underfunded or governing. nonexistent in public schools. Private schools PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, where tuition is typically are often well-equipped with current educational one-third that of independent schools, offer