Definition of Public-Private School

We begin by explaining the School Public. In this regard, the concept of public service automatically. Thus, public school is a public service insofar as it is a service offered by the state free of charge and with a universal character (for all kids school age). The gratuitousness of this service is possible thanks to the taxes collected by the state for the maintenance of the services to the community.

Most states offer this chance of going to school for any child, in relation to a basic principle common to many states: equality of opportunities. This implies that any child of any social stratum in any region of a country will have the same opportunities to have a prosperous future as another child in another situation.

Schools are planned in different ways as is done for example in the US and Europe, however most public schools have some common characteristics such as teaching the values ​​of a nation: freedom, equality, fraternity ...

Due to their condition of public service, these schools have to offer an education directly stipulated by the state, in this way, the states create teaching plans or laws of

education to which all public schools must abide by and follow pre-established standards.

Private school

In contrast to public schools we find private schools, these schools are not part of the public services of a state and become part of a teaching given by a private entity with the intention of profit

Unlike public schools, private schools are not free for the mere fact that the main objective of a company is to make money; private schools are not universal in nature, as they are aimed at the group that does not want to have a school nor do they have to represent specific values, since from the point of view of a private company they have the right to impart values ​​such as religious, military, elitist ...

Although private schools can choose in some way the type of education they impart to their students, the state stipulates some standards of quality of education to which the private school has to obey, then for example at the end of the school stage, all students without distinction between private school or They pass some exams that will allow them to go to university, in this way it is guaranteed that in private schools common margins with the school are respected public.

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