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To: treetopflier who wrote (11172)	10/25/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

I went to a boarding school for a few years in high school ttf. There was no way really to work there because it was located in a rather remote location. Prior to that, I had attended public schools which were a little better than they are now in the area I attended. My take on the difference between private and public schools educationally, is that the private schools spend a huge amount of time preparing the kids for the standardized tests. There are entire classes, mandatory btw, that focus on prefixes and suffixes etc. The only reason anybody cares about that is because that is what is on the SATs. If you were attending public school, it is very likely that you could walk into an SAT with no real exposure to the type of testing they do - not in a private school (well not in my private school anyway). So, consequently, all the kids at the private school have their choice of universities because their test scores are really high (also if you start failing any classes they lock you in your room so you are less likely to fail). I know test taking seems like an irrelevant topic and as a parent you would think this shouldnt matter to your kid, but unfortunately it does. My guess is many of the tests that score pvt school kids vs. public are actually scoring the pvt school kids' test taking ability vs. public.