Magnate Schools and Charter Schools can, have, and will. Esp Charter schools where they kick out borderline students after they get their tuition money from the state around October.
It is when the kids from those towns have no choice but to go to that regional school.
Fair point. The towns providing the kids does change from time to time but not for some time. Other schools like Ramapo and Indian Hills can be chosen by residents of the 3 towns that support them
How come you don’t consider a regional district a true public school? Isn’t it just a label used to consolidate multiple sending areas under one name?
Hohokus as well. Or at least they used to be part of it. Midland Park back in the day as well.
Multiple towns sending their kids there. And the sending towns can change if needed. My reference is more related to single town/school districts and athletics. Gives those schools advantages.
I think about a quarter in my town send their kids to private. Most of the parents were private school kids so that makes sense. IMO, private schools definitely can help the cuspy kids get into better schools and kids that just need smaller class size. But kids who are smart and motivated will do fine in a public. Kids who are not exceptional will not get into the top tier colleges because they went to a private school.
Private school def gives kids a leg up
Private school kids are just better educated. I feel very comfortable making that statement at this point. Sure there are outliers but test scores alone tell us the story.
I think it’s safe to say the avg test scores are higher. But that’s just because of the smaller class size. The top 15% kids at the top public have the same test score.
Yea that leaves 85% who in many test woefully bad. Outside of a handful of public schools in wealthy areas in NJ and across the country, public school is an abject failure in every way. Nevermind comparing it to global peers. It’s an embarrassment. Any data trying to show otherwise is laughable.
That’s because they are going there for sports. Maybe Delby is really good at coaching wrestling. Summit is send a few kids to Dartmouth for sports. These kids are not top 10% of the class.
If you put that 85% in private, they will still test poorly. Private are able to weed out that 85%. The magnet schools are like that but it’s very academic focus w/o arts or sports. You have to go back to your district school if you want to participate.
That’s a good point, but if they were going to a regular public and have those grades, but were that good in sports, they would not be going to Princeton
With all due respect at Dartmouth, it’s not Princeton
For sports, that is still the case.
I just read that only about 30 students get in a year in Princeton due to legacy. 70% of legacy don’t get admitted. They say if everything equal then they take the legacy.
I’m not going to argue semantics here as Ivies are Ivies and clearly well respected here in the United States and around the world
So then why haven’t you looked it up? It took me a minute to find the data after your first post about it.
I'm a little surprised my alma mater was only #42. Of course, I haven't lived there since 1973.
