Because the teachers didn't think to adjust the students testing scores like that one school district did they had on the news last week. : ).... Or a politician thought that if they threw enough money at the so called underpaid teachers they could or would teach better. : ). Hahahaha.man those teachers pulled the wool over the taxpayers eyes again didn't they.
Because the rich are basically getting everything handed them on a plate. The private school system caters for the top echelons of the country's students (that applies to the UK as well as the USA), who in all likelihood, will be given a red-carpet entry to the Ivy League or the UK's Red-Brick universities. Wealth breeds laziness and laziness breeds contempt with the upper-class rich.
The private (public) schools are staffed by teachers who are basically in it for the money and since the students don't care as they know Daddy will sort everything out for them, their lack of teaching prowess is never brought to light. The students are shunted along through the grades and when they do finally graduate, the network of contacts or the "old-school tie system" ensures these people have either a job to walk into a or an Ivy League place. No struggling with money issues, paying back a student loan or having to work weekends/holidays.
An expensive school education is for prestige, kudos and the social advantage a school name brings. It's about creating an image for social and snobbish reasons as a free ticket to what ordinary people have to work for. That's why average and even the poorer school students perform better, as they have to work for their future. Nothing is handed to them on a plate, no free lunch and no "old-boy" social network. I speak from experience when I say that the ordinary girls school I attended was a solid consistent performer. We had to work for anything we achieved. Money may speak volumes, but in school, it's students hopes and aspirations and their will to succeed that counts.
