Quote Originally Posted by DoomedOne View Post
Just because it takes time to prepare doesn't mean it's an adequate comparitive between schools. You're judging their prep courses, basically, when there is so much more to learning, and not only that but individual differences with a student's ability to demonstrate what they know vary as well.
I'm saying that standardized test scores reflect way more than differences in prep courses. Murrah (public) students could take Jackson Academy's prep course and vice-versa and Jackson Academy's scores will still be far better than Murrah's. It's because of the differences in years and years of learning. And like I said, career success is another indicator. There are reasons people who could send their kids to Murrah or whatever public school is in their region for free will pay $12,000 a year to send their kids to Jackson Academy or Jackson Prep or less money to send them to another private school in the area. It is knowable what schools are better than others. Do you really not have a sense of what schools are better than others in your area? Do you think there is no way to know?