Quote Originally Posted by bplgocards View Post
Benefits of private schools. Also take into account in additional to sending their child to schhol, they are also sending others with tax money the private schools do not recieve. Parents are responsible for transportation, tuition, ect. Not to mention you have to achieving a certain performance level if you want to continue to attend the schoools.
Still irrelevant to the point. Yes they are great schools, yes they have great football teams, but they are still getting an advantage because they can recruit players that other schools can't.

As to the academic side, that is a little misleading. If you are smart and a good student who does the work, it really doesn't matter where you go to school. Where the big benefit of a private school comes in is for helping the middle of the road student improve academically.

A good example of this. By test scores, my son's school is not very good, yet they have sent kids to Harvard and I can think of three that got West Point appointments.