The collapse of American education continues as rich families pull their kids out of private schools - NaturalNews.com

The collapse of American education continues as rich families pull their kids out of private schools - NaturalNews.com

The collapse of American education continues as rich families pull their kids out of private schools

 (NaturalNews) Many Americans are aware that the nation's public
education system is bloated, expensive and incompetent, turning out
millions of high school graduates who can't read, write or speak well,
cannot accurately recite U.S. history, and know very little about civics
and government. As a result, more and more Americans are pulling their
children out of public schools and either placing them in private
secular or religious schools or home-schooling them.

That hasn't
traditionally been the case for wealthier Americans, however. For years,
most of them have avoided sending their children to public schools,
opting instead to send them to pricey, exclusive private schools where
they presumably received better educations than their public school
counterparts.

All of that seems to be changing now. As reported by CNBC,
the wealthy are increasingly pulling their kids out of private schools
and opting instead to hire private tutors for in-home instruction.

As
the financial news network reported, part of the reason appears to be
that competition at elite schools is becoming more fierce – so much so
that even exclusive private educations won't adequately prepare the
children of the elite:

As most children return to school, many
affluent families are choosing to pull their children out of the
mainstream education system altogether in favor of having a tutor at
home – particularly as competition for places at the most prestigious
schools heats up.