akrinis said:
This is something which I'm always pondering about, do parents send their children to private/selective/religious schools because they're of that religion, or because of the prestige? I could be completely wrong and it might be because it's simply the nearest school or something.
Well, I think parents send their kids to private schools because of the facilities they offer: the sport, and especially the more expensive schools the technology. I think the standards ie behaviour, uniform, grroming at private school are a lot higher then public schools (no offence).
Religious schools, well I go to a Catholic School and I'd have to say a large proportion of us are secular, and don't really want to do SOR but it's compulsory for us. I think they go to my school for the great sporting opportunities they offer, plus the decent education and its relatively cheap compared to other private schools. We only have got decent facilities in the classroom, and I do envy schools like Trinity and Newington who have a lot more tech. then us. I live in the Inner-West, so there's a wide range of schools to choose from;My parents decided to invest my education in Private schools, but my brother goes to a Selective school.
Selective schools, more academic based. But I think that there's been a more bigger push for more co-curricular involvement, not just to study.