Compare/Contrast Essay

By:

Nick Daugherty

           

Many parents have to make a decision in some point of their kid’s life. To send their kids to a public or private school.  I think many parents would want their kids to go to a private school but they can’t afford it.  Since public school is government funded, parents can send them there with very little expenses. This essay will show you the benefits of students learning different subject from a Christian viewpoint and how it can benefit them later on in life.

The education that is taught in both schools is somewhat the same, but public may teach some classes in a different view. Private schools teach that everything is made and put in place by God. Private schools also have Bible classes that teach and study God’s Word.

Private schools let you have a better teacher-student relationship.  Surveys say the public schools don’t have a good teacher-student relationship. That is because some of the students don’t care about their grades.  Some of the students in public schools don’t respect their teachers. So why should the teachers help them? Christian schoolteachers want their students to learn and do their best. Private school teachers want to spend time with their students to make sure they are getting what is being taught.

The discipline in these two different schools is completely different.  Public school students know they can get away with stuff so they do it anyway.  The students swear at each other.  They get into fights almost every day and faculty barely does anything about it.  At a Christian school, like ours, the students know if they do something wrong they will be punished. Most private schools have strict rules about what you can and cannot do. Also in a Christian school, students respect each other and the teachers.  Students in public school don’t respect each other or the teachers.  I shouldn’t say all the students don’t respect them because some treat their teachers with more respect than some Christian school kids.

Private schools get their students ready for college.  The teachers push their kids to do the best the can.  Public teachers care about their students but they can’t do as much when the students don’t care about their grades or if they are going to college.  I looked online and found that private schools average 1.25 better on their ACT tests than public school students.   That’s not much but it kind of proves that some private school students take school more seriously than public school students.

If you want to have your kid to get a good quality education while building there relationship in God I would send them to a private school.