Type of schools.

Hello everybody;

Today, in this post, we are going to talk about the different types of school.

Every year, a lot of parents decide the school where their children will be educated. In this moment, they dude if is better a public, private or semi-private school, and in which one of these schools they will have the best education. In this way, families start to think in some things like: if the school will have all that their children need, if it is a bilingual centre, what the school would do with a problem of bullying (because, currently in the news, we are always hearing that each day there are problems of bullying in the schools), if this school will introduce or not new methodologies and technologies, if teachers are good or not to the education of children, the type of diet that they will follow in the dining room… (Urquizu, 2006)

In order to do a good choice parents must reflect about the values and capacities that their children will achieve. Some parents will want that their children learn different languages, and other ones will want that their children acquire some religious values.

 It is also important that parents visit some different schools: the facilities that it offers, the social atmosphere and environment, the projects they develop… The “perfect school” does not exist, but we can look for the best one adapting it to our necessities.

Some parents, they value the marks that students from the school have had in the University Entrance Examination. Following an analysis that the UNIR from the Pisa report did, it says to us that “the students of private schools obtain better results than those of the public schools, although in several cases the differences are not statistically significant (UNIR, 2014)

Every people of our group, we went to a semi-private school, but one of us, he was also in a public school. The experience was good in all the schools, but it is true that he preferred the public one. Maybe, because teachers were better and have more vocation, but also because of the diversity. In semi-private school there are a lot of rules: the uniform, sometimes the hair colour is a problem, and a lot of these types of things that for this person of our groups should not be restricted. In his public school, there were no problems, talking about the clothes or the hair that each people could have, so maybe it is a point in favour of public schools. (Llera y Pérez, 2012)

We can also explain that in public schools, there is more assistance to use new infrastructures, but in semi-private schools, there are not problems because they are financed by the “Junta de Andalucía” and other Foundations and Religious Congregations.

From our point of view, to be in a semi-private or private school, people have to be very religious in order to accept without problems all the requirements they impose in order to be in these schools: Religion as a compulsory subject, values inspired by the Gospel based on faith… while public schools, they offer the possibility to choose if people want to have a catholic or a secular learning.

References

UNIR, (19.05.2014). ¿Colegios públicos o privados? El informe PISA analiza cuáles son mejores. El confidencial| Alma, corazón, vida. Recuperado de : http://www.elconfidencial.com/alma-corazon-vida/2014-05-19/colegios-publicos-o-privados-el-informe-pisa-analiza-cuales-son-mejores_132970/

Llera, R. F., & Pérez, M. M. (2012). Colegios concertados y selección de escuela en España: un círculo vicioso. Presupuesto y gasto público,67,97-118.

Urquizu, I. (2006). La selección de escuela en España. XI Conferencia de Sociología de la Educación: Santander, 1-24.