degrees and doctorates. Students in Bloom are also being taught by teachers who forty-seven of have a bachelor's degree and only fifty-two have a master's degree (Bloom 2), whereas Lincoln-Way teachers have thirty-three percent holding bachelor's degrees and sixty-eight percent holding doctorates (Lincoln 2). Of course students who are being taught by a better caliber of teachers are going to achieve more and score higher. The average score on the ACT for Lincoln-Way was a twenty-three (Lincoln 1) as opposed to Bloom's eighteen (Bloom 1). There also has to be some blame placed on the teacher when the students do not score high on these tests. As stated by Anyon, teachers in 'working class school' do not show students how to do anything, they simply shout out orders on the procedure of things. A student can not be expected to perform well in high school if their ground structure is shaky.There are some advantages of going to a public school, however minute they might be, "1) it's free 2) your child will be attending a local school which is part of the community 3) the teachers must be qualified and will have served a year's probation"(Heaney 3). In a public school teachers must have a teaching certificate to teach, but in a private school a degree in the intended field of teaching is all that is required.Which high school to attend is a big decision and one that is often made by the parents, but I do not see any reason why a parent who can afford a private school would want to put their child through a public school when the private school is obviously the better choice. There are many students who have made it through college from a public school and who have made it through high school and gone on to have great jobs, but the odds are in definite favor of us....
