Two of ours went to private schools and the others went to ordinary secondary schools. Our private students performed marginally less than the others in the Leaving Cert and left school with less street-savvy.
I believe if the pupil wants to achieve any objective he/she will work towards that private or public. Incidentally, all of them are professionals and earn the same as each other.
I'm not going to brow beat you into doing what you don't wish to do, but take it or leave it I think you'll need a Plan B. And I think you're the kind of person who will have Plans A, B and C.
I am fully of the opinion that a well motivated and supported student will do well academically in most schools.
Fee paying schools are very much a Dublin phenomenon. The overwhelming majority of students currently in third level in Ireland went to state schools.[not] Dublin native, I still am surprised to hear adults refer to the secondary school...
There is some snobbery from some of the fee paying people. Likewise there can be invert snobbery from those who are firmly against paying for education.
I should add that having attended both fee paying and non-fee paying schools my kids will be attending non-fee paying schools. Having talked it through with my wife we are of the opinion that the schools in our area are good enough that we don't see the value in paying when the time comes. That could of course change.Having attended both a public school and also a fee paying boarding school my observations are that the pupils were broadly similar in ability. Same goes for the teachers. The difference was in culture and expectation. The kids in fee paying schools had seen their parents with good jobs earning well and were expected to follow and become higher achievers. The outcomes for the kids had less to do with the school and more to do with the parents. I would guess kids attending non-fee paying schools in well to do areas would perform similarly to those in fee paying schools.
Just my observations from my experience and probably over simplified.
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