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So, you are thinking about sending your child to private school. You know what you want your ideal school to do for your child's education and her development. The next item on your school selection punch list is figuring out which of the dozens of schools out there is the best one for your child and you. I wrote the following twenty-six articles with you in mind. We sent our two daughters to private school from their pre-school years through high school. I remember how little I knew about private schools. Back then I didn't know what to look for. I trusted the head of school and her teachers and expected them to give my daughters a solid academic education. That's how innocent I was! Of course, there's much more to finding a school. The following articles draw on my experience as a parent and a private school teacher and administrator.

5 Factors for a Successful 草榴社区 School Experience

By a successful private school experience, I mean one where your child is happy. As you consider sending your child to private school, think about these five factors which make for a successful private school experience. Read more...

5 Mistakes Parents Make When Choosing A 草榴社区 School

Choosing the right private school for your child is a lengthy process. You should begin your school search process at least eighteen months before the first day of school. I want you to achieve the success which you deserve without

Google, Bing, and Yahoo will find almost anything you are looking for, provided that you ask them correctly. The problem with these search engines is that if you aren't careful, you will end up with far too many results. And 99% of those results will not be relevant to you and your needs. For example, when I search for "private schools" on Google, I get millions of search results. Nobody has time to look through all those schools. With that in mind, here are a few search tips to help you search more efficiently.

Save Interesting Sites

Before we start searching for schools, take a few minutes to set up a Google Doc, Microsoft Word document, or spreadsheet. Save interesting school websites for easy reference tomorrow, next week, or a month from now. Doing this will save you valuable time and keep your search process organized.

Use Quotes

When you enter the term private schools without quotes in Google, Bing, or Yahoo, you will get millions of results. By surrounding your search term with quotation marks, you will restrict the results to precisely what you have specified. For example, "private schools raleigh nc" will produce a list of private schools in Raleigh, North Carolina. You will still have to filter the results to find schools that match your requirements.

Be Precise

If you are looking for Jewish schools in Nashville, Tennessee, enter:

• jewish schools nashville tn

You will still have to filter the results because, depending on the

This article has been updated to reflect 2026 data and recent developments.

Editor's note: In the following conversation, the parent is fictitious but her questions and my answers are real.

Parent: I am thinking about sending my teenage daughter to a private school for grades 9-12. How do I find the best school for her?

Rob K: Let me answer your question with another question. I know that I sound like an attorney by doing this, but I need to understand why you are thinking about sending your daughter to private school. Once you have told me your reasons, I will explain how to accomplish your goal.

Parent: My daughter's current school is OK. It's a public school which sends a large percentage of its graduates on to further education. So, that's OK. She's been with some of her classmates since kindergarten. Now I feel that she should be with other students who really want to learn. I also want her to be in smaller classes. She's one of 25 students right now. The other thing that concerns me is that the high school curriculum seems a bit thin and is mostly focused on SATs and AP examination preparation.

Rob K: Now, you are giving me something to work with. Small class sizes are one of the main reasons most parents decide to send their children to private school. Most schools have 12-15 students per class. Your child will not just be a number in a small class.

I have been writing about corporal punishment in K-12 schools since 1999. Frankly, I am appalled that corporal punishment is still permitted in some American schools in 2026.

In 2019, 19 states still permitted corporal punishment in their public schools. While policies continue to evolve and the number of incidents has declined, the United States still does not have a federal law prohibiting corporal punishment in public or private schools, much less in the home. State and local laws govern education in almost every respect. Local and state taxes fund public education. Therefore, it has been the local and state authorities that make the rules regarding how students are disciplined.

What Is Corporal Punishment?

The defines corporal punishment as:

鈥淎ny punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however light. Most involve hitting ("smacking", "slapping", "spanking") children, with the hand or with an implement."

That definition remains one of the most widely accepted descriptions of corporal punishment used by child welfare and educational organizations around the world.

How Many Children Are Involved With Corporal Punishment?

In previous years, hundreds of thousands of children experienced corporal punishment in public schools.

The continues to monitor discipline practices through its civil rights data collection programs. While the number of incidents has declined over the past decade, advocates argue that any continued use of physical punishment remains a concern.

Why

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Should you send your child to a school which prepares its students to take either the SAT or ACT? That's a decision which you will face when you evaluate schools on your shortlist. At that point, you will have to choose schools which teach to the test or progressive schools which do not.

Schools which offer SAT or ACT preparation spend two or three years preparing their students to take those examinations in their senior year. In addition, most of these schools will offer Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Progressive schools prepare their students for college with experiential learning and the development of portfolios demonstrating academic accomplishments. Naturally, each educational approach has its proponents and its opponents.

Some people think that good test scores on standardized admissions tests are the only way to get into a competitive college such as Harvard or Princeton. The reality is that these days, college admissions departments look at much more than test scores when determining which applicants to admit.

Background: History of the SAT and ACT

The SAT, or Scholastic Aptitude Test as it used to be called, has been around since 1926. explains how the SAT evolved from an Army IQ test to a college admissions test. The original idea behind that college admissions test was to level the admissions playing field by evaluating scholarship students seeking admission to Harvard. Back in the early part of the 20th-century, the elite New England boarding schools