What is the difference between private school and a public school?

Question

What is the difference between private school and a public school?

Answer 1

I see the difference in the student population for the most part.  Private schools are able to choose candidates from a pool of applicants.  Therefore, they can take the best and most well-behaved students.  Public schools educate anyone and everyone who comes through the door.

Interestingly enough, private schools have a reputation as having the best students.  However, several recent studies indicate that public schools are much better at educating students and have higher performing students in general.  

Researchers believe this stems from the fact that the public schools must find ways to enrich even the lowest of students.  If someone is not doing well, they are required by law to provide remediation.  Through this remediation, most low performing students are caught up.  Private schools, on the other hand, do not always keep up with the latest methods...preferring, perhaps, to drop low students from their rosters.

Answer 2

Public - government funded, <--teachers' salary more, need a teacher's certificate, no uniforms - maybe a dress code but that's no big deal, no talk of religion, etc.

Private - uniforms, cost money - a lot, teachers' salary quite lower, don't have to have a teacher's certificate, usually corresponds with religion, etc.

More? Look it up. :)

Answer 3

Public schools are free and private schools cost money.  Private schools generally have a better class of students.  Public schools have many more drug problems, fights, arrests, threats, and crappy teachers.

Answer 4

Public schools are free.  They are paid for by public money from taxes.  Private schools are paid for by each family that elects to send their child there rather than public school.  The vast majority of children attend public schools because of the (relatively) high cost of private education.  Because federal law requires children to be enrolled in school until at least their 18th birthday the public school system is available to everyone.  Private schools generally have some sort of application process.  Public schools tend to have more problems (fights, drugs, truency, etc) than private schools

Answer 5

You were given an answer that is loaded with generalizations. That makes those generalizations wrong in a lot of cases.

A public school is one funded from taxes and the children of those tax payers are allowed to send their children there to receive an education. A private school is one that isn't funded by taxes but rather tuition costs payed (at least ultimately) by those enrolled.

Answer 6

Private is not gov funded  and tends to be better less crime high grad rates at my school 100% of the people go to colladge