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Your options in choosing a school
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Your options in choosing a school
Your first option is your neighboring public school. However, aside from the nearest public school, there are specialist public schools, as well as private schools. You can also do homeschooling.

Specialist public schools are funded by the government, but they may have a different curriculum from mainstream schools. For example, science schools focus on the sciences, while "comprehensive" schools offer a higher-level vocational training program than those offered in mainstream public schools. Most specialist schools require an entrance examination for their students.

Private schools do not depend on the government for their budget, although some of them rely on financial extension from the government. Private schools are required to follow the minimum curriculum set by the Department of Education, but they may add other subjects to the curriculum, for example, Christian Living. See below for a comparison between public and private schools.

Homeschooling is also an option. Although not widely popular in the Philippines, it is available for those who would like to take advantage of it. All you need to do is to register to a certified program. Take note though that this is quite expensive.

Public vs private schools
Public schools cannot charge tuition since they are funded by the government. Private schools, on the other hand, must source out their operating expenses from the parents.

There are expensive and not-so-expensive private schools though. Tuition can range from as low as PHP 200/month in some rural town to PHP 10,000/month in some exclusive school in the city. Generally, the more expensive the school the better its performance would be, although there should a lot of exceptions to this.

Private schools could also impose their own admission standards, and parents could not force a private school to enroll their child.

Generally, private schools perform better than private schools, simply because they have less students per teacher.

In most localities, the only private schools operating are those run by religious corporations, although this is rapidly changing.
12-22-2008 03:12 AM
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RE: Your options in choosing a school
for me, i am going to choose in private school. it is really good quality education if its private. how ever in public it seems lack of facilities and has not really good instructor. Private school which is best.
05-12-2009 08:14 PM
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RE: Your options in choosing a school
The best schools in the Philippines are the laboratory schools of our state universities and science high schools. These are all public schools.
05-18-2009 12:29 AM
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one sad state i frowned with public grade and high school is the overpopulation of students and the under supply of teachers, classrooms and facilities. In the Philippines, it is common to see one classroom with a 60 or 70 students in it. this is not the the way around with private schools.
06-13-2010 07:14 PM
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umesh Offline
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Everybody have there own view to choose private and public school. But the main purpose of learning is to get a good education. There maybe some differences between the private and public school but the education we get is same. In my opinion we should choose the private school for a good education. In which we get the different facilities and equipment for making our work easier.
12-08-2010 05:56 PM
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My children are in public high school in Quezon city. Its not a science high school. And the student/teacher ratio is 40:1. Some of the students dropped and the ratio eventually became 30 to 1.

There are some things that are taught indirectly when in the public school. Generally, this is the interpersonal intelligence and social awareness. They get to see classmates from the poorest of the poor to middle class. And they find a way to get together especially when doing group works.

It is more challenging for parents whose children are in public school. If the student is determined to learn then he will learn. Because most of their teachers are really doing their best.

In private school there are obvious advantages. But there is also a disadvantage of parents getting too complacent. Nowadays, you can not depend on the schools to provide your children with a complete curriculum. The parents have to decide what is important to learn and provide some home study, even in private schools. The disadvantage is that most parents are not aware of this.
02-07-2011 09:48 PM
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