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Originally Posted by cincibuck
Apples and Oranges. You can't compare the two systems because the playing field isn't level. Having been a teacher and coach at Archbishop Moeller High School for 20 years, assigned there by Hamilton County Education Service Center, I would like to point out a few differences, crucial differences, that make your statistics irrelevant: 1. All private schools and parochial schools are free to operate under different rules than public schools. 2. Private and parochial schools retain the right to dismiss students. 3. Private and Parochial schools do NOT have to educate ALL students, regardless of abilities, behavior, standardized test scores.
In every national comparison I have read Private and Parochial schools do NO better than comparable public schools when the playing field is level in terms of socio-economic standards.
I loved my years at Moeller and I consider it an excellent school, but there were public schools that were every bit as good and serviced ALL who entered their doors.
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I would have to say that Dublin and Watterson are in the same "socio-economic" status group.
If he was comparing Centennial to Watterson, then you can say the economic levels are different, but not with Dublin.
Hell, probably almost 1/2 of Watterson is from Dublin....