Are private schools better than public ones?

Brazilian society, in general, believes that private schools are always better than public schools. Even with the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb) pointing out that this placement actually exists, there are other aspects that need to be portrayed.

For example, in 2017, the first years of elementary education in private schools reached a score of 7.1. Despite being larger than public schools (5.5), they did not reach the stipulated goal. Unlike public education that has evolved.

In the last years of elementary school and high school, both private and public schools did not evolve in a grand way.

With these data, it can be concluded that there is little difference between the two educational networks during the first years of elementary school. But these differences begin to grow when we reach the last years of elementary school and increase even more in high school.

Are private schools better than public ones?

In an interview with Nova Escola, the executive president of Todos Pela Educação, Priscila Cruz, says that students remain in school according to their conditions. For example, a struggling student is unable to keep up with tuition.

She also states that generally, what is taught in private schools is the same as what is taught in public schools. The difference is the tools offered for student learning.

A private school, in addition to being better, promotes more opportunities for students.

Education in other countries

Despite the fact that private schools present a higher development index than public ones, this education is still below the median of several countries.

The organization that applies the Pisa test (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), has proven that Singapore ranked first in applied knowledge areas (556 points in Science, 535 in Reading and 564 in Mathematics).

Still compared to other countries, such as Vietnam and Estonia (countries with low Gross Domestic Product), Brazil's placement was not the highest. This is shown through the scores, which were: Estonia (500 points), Vietnam (490) and the richest Brazilian students (480).

These wealthier students scored even lower than the median education in other countries such as Italy, Luxembourg, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Policies for teachers

Executive president Priscila Cruz also states that to improve this situation in Brazil, it is essential to create policies for teachers. She believes that education, whether private or private, depends on teachers.

The professor of the Department of Sociology at the University of Brasília (Unb), Pedro Demo, declares that in a reality where out of 48.6 million students, only 9.3 million (19%) have access to private school, it becomes an injustice that this network takes care of only the elite of society, while public schools carry the diversity.