Quora熱答：美英家庭如何看公立和私立學校區別

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What are some differences between public and private schools?

公立學校和私立學校有什麼不同?

Funding is the obvious difference.

資金是明顯的區別。

The government funds public schools, and parents fund private schools. Those same parents fund public schools too, via taxes, for what it’s worth.

政府資助公立學校，家長資助私立學校。同樣的，父母也通過稅收為公立學校提供資金，不管它金額為多少。

Around here, people pick private schools over public schools for these differences:

在這裡，人們選擇私立學校而不是公立學校從這些差異來區分：

Safety.

安全

Private schools can be selective with which students they allow in the school. Public schools cannot. The biggest discipline problem I’ve even encountered at a private school is students who talk too much. My public-school-teacher friends have to break up fights on a regular basis.

私立學校可以有選擇性地錄取學生，公立學校不能。我在私立學校遇到的最大的紀律問題是學生們話太多。我在公立學校當老師的朋友們不得不解決學生經常的打打鬧鬧。

Better classmates

更好的同學

There’s probably a more tactful way to say that, but that’s what a lot of the parents want… their children to be in a building all day surrounded by other children whose parents care enough and have the means to pay for a private school.

也許有一種更委婉的說法，但這正是很多家長想要的——他們的孩子整天呆在一棟樓裡，周圍都是其他孩子，他們的父母足夠關心他們，也有能力支付私立學校的學費。

Every year I have more students with stay-at-home parents (because the other parent has a high income) than I have students who are being raised by single parents.

大部分的學生和全職父母在一起(因為另一個父母的收入很高)只有少量學生是由單親父母撫養長大的。

Less red tape/bureaucracy.

沒有過多/官僚機構的繁文縟節。

There are open lines of communication between parents and teachers. The parents are the customers, after all. Every private school I’ve ever worked at has had one full-time administrator. That’s it.

父母和老師之間有開放的交流渠道。畢竟，父母是顧客。我工作過的每一所私立學校都有一名全職管理人員。就是不一樣。

There’s usually a teacher who has an extra planning period for “assistant principal” duties. No counselors. No deans. No athletic directors. Just a principal, secretary, janitor, and a bunch of teachers with the freedom to teach whichever way benefits the students the most.

私立學校通常一個老師會有額外的“副校長”職責。沒有顧問。沒有院長。沒有體育董事。只要有校長、秘書、門衛和一群教師，他們就可以自由地以最有利於學生的方式教學。

No “teaching to the test.”

不是“應試教育”。

We do one standardized test every year, just so we can track our students. The information we get from that test is given to us to help us plan our curriculum.

“我們每年都要進行一次標準化考試，這樣我們就可以跟蹤我們的學生。”我們從測試中得到的信息是用來幫助我們規劃課程的。

It’s not used against us. The public schools here have 3–4 standardized tests every year, and the results are held over the teachers’ and administrators’ heads, so that the school spends a lot of time teaching what will be on the standardize test, at the expense of other curriculum the students would benefit from.

考試不是用來對付我們的！這裡的公立學校每年有3-4次標準化考試，考試結果由老師和管理人員負責，所以學校花了大量的時間來教授標準化考試的內容，而犧牲了學生可以從中受益的其他課程。

Things like “religious curriculum” and “school location” are also reasons that parents send their children to private schools around here. But the things on my list are the main reasons.

有些家長把孩子送到私立學校是因為一些諸如“宗教課程”和“學校所在地”之類的其他原因。但我上述列的都是主要原因。

英國選擇私立學校的原因

Private schools in western countries are very different than other parts of the world. I am going to discuss the differences between private schools in U.K and Ireland compared to public schools.

西方國家的私立學校與世界其他地方的私立學校大不相同。我將討論英國私立學校和公立學校相比之間的差異。

Nicer uniforms

更好的校服

Usually, private schools have better quality school uniforms. Students are required to wear formally throughout U.K and Ireland in all type of schools, some schools make it an exception which are usually less than 10%.

通常，私立學校有更好質量的校服。學生在英國和愛爾蘭所有類型的學校要求穿正式服裝。有些學校例外，通常不到10%。

Top notch facilities

頂級的設施

From tennis courts, to swimming pool, gym, nice cafeteria, professional after school clubs. Students take sports, clubs, drama and music very seriously. We usually compete both nationally and internationally for multiple competitions.

從網球場到游泳池，健身房，漂亮的自助餐廳，專業的課外俱樂部。學生們非常重視體育、俱樂部、戲劇和音樂。我們通常在國內和國際上進行多項比賽。

The private schools have the best architecture.

私立學校有最好的建築。

Have you ever watched Harry Potter? That’s how most private schools in UK and Ireland look like. While public school is more likely new in built with cheap carbon wooden walls.

你看過《哈利·波特》嗎?這就是英國和愛爾蘭大多數私立學校的樣子。而公立學校更有可能是用廉價的碳木牆建成的。

More opportunities

更多的機會

You are networking all the time.

你一直在建立人脈網絡。

Going to a private school, you’re going to school with elite students. Not all private schools are good, therefore you need to make a good investment of research finding one.

上私立學校，你和優秀的學生一起上學。並不是所有的私立學校都很好，因此你需要投入大量的調研，最終確定一所。

You have top business, law, politicians and medical professionals as alumni guest speakers. That’s a huge aspect already.

你有頂級的商業、法律、政治家和醫療專業人士作為校友嘉賓。這是一個很大的因素。

Mental Health

心理健康

Being a teenager is challenging.

作為青少年是一個挑戰。

You have a Councillor who is a professional designed to help you with your difficulties.

你有一個專業的顧問來幫助你解決困難。

You have the best teachers in the country, lessons are often the same and opportunities are also created both in public and private schools. I have seen many successful people who attended public schools back home.

你們有全國最好的老師，課程通常都一樣，公立學校和私立學校也都有機會。我見過很多成功人士在家鄉上公立學校。

Downside of going to private schools.

上私立學校的壞處。

Depression - It’s high and you actually have very few friends in private schools. Everyone stick into their inner circles and you will end up being lonely after all.

抑鬱——抑鬱程度很高，實際上你在私立學校的朋友很少。每個人都進入了自己的圈子，你最終還是會孤獨。

Isolation - You’re isolated from the other 90% of the world. You don’t know other people’s struggles or difficulties. You just live in a beautiful bubble.

與世隔絕——你和世界上其他90%的人都隔絕了。你不知道別人的掙扎和困難。你只是生活在一個美麗的泡泡裡。

Competitiveness - Everyone wants to go to the top schools so they can manage their father’s company, family business or do the traditional thing of becoming a doctor because they are from a line of medical professionals. There’s a lot of pressure.

競爭力——每個人都想上頂尖的學校，這樣他們就可以管理父親的公司、家族企業，或者做傳統意義上的醫生，因為他們來自一個醫學專業領域。壓力很大。

Lack of diversity - Everyone comes from a good family with no really exciting stories. God forbid, if you’re the odd one because you’re just another freak.

缺乏多樣性——每個人都來自一個沒有真正令人激動的故事的好家庭。但願不會發生這樣的事，如果你是個怪人，因為你只是另一個怪胎。

I have seen many of my school pupils and classmates being complete failures now, wasting daddies money, doing drugs or partying in NewYork City or London. Very few of us are actually successful. Most dropped out of college and did not make the school or their parents proud.

我看到我的許多學生和同學現在完全失敗，浪費爸爸的錢，吸毒或在紐約或倫敦聚會。我們當中很少有人真正成功。大多數人從大學輟學，沒有讓學校或他們的父母感到驕傲。

[英文原文來源： https://www.quora.com/]

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