今天The Telegraph的头版头条新闻：公校说牛逼私校都去面壁去吧“State pupils put private schools in the shade”。
最新的A Level成绩表明最佳500所公立中学超过了最佳500所私校！很多私校父母肯定会想TMD的白花钱了。
这个结果说明了公校每年都在改善，要不然David Cameron等等政客也不会送孩子上公校，对不对？
不过别把这个结果看的过分认真，原因（1）这个结果是按照DoE的排名榜方法排的，DoE的排名榜只算A Level 成绩，越来越多的私校的很多科目好的学生不学A Level，而是学更难和更全面的PreU，这样A level成绩自然会不好，（2）有很多私校是sport，art等等的专门学校，（3）排名榜是平均成绩，私校有一部分非常差的孩子平均成绩会被拉下来。（4）最佳好公校里面很多是Grammar School（state selective secondary school），这些学校的学生入学成绩比私校好。
交了钱成绩还不是最佳，那还交钱干嘛？一些家长会说了同学好关系网好，实际上好的公校都在好地区学生都很好，特别grammar school的大部份学生都是middle class家庭来的，同学不比私校同学差。
一年交那么多钱没有什么好处啊？
I really don’t know。
这是Telegraph的原文，到网站去看看很多人的评论非常有意思。
State pupils put private schools in the shade： Analysis of A-level results shows fee-paying students were outclassed by top performing state schools in league tables
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11815341/State-schools-outperforming-average-private-schools.html
Leading state schools now perform better in exam league tables than private schools, analysis has suggested.
Research based on official Department for Education figures found that England’s best 500 state schools are outperforming the top 500 private schools.
The analysis shows that the average points per pupil is higher at state than at fee-paying schools. The figures were disclosed as GCSE results fell for the fourth consecutive year, with the Government continuing its fight against grade inflation.
The evidence that the best state schools are outperforming private schools is expected to be seized upon by the Government.
During his time as Education Secretary, Michael Gove said that standards in state schools should be “so high” that they were indistinguishable from Eton or Harrow.
A senior source said: “We think the data is hugely welcomed and we think that it vindicates that our reforms are working and the next step should be to turbo-charge those reforms. It used to be that the state sector could learn from the private sector and now it is the other way around.”
Each January, the Government releases a full breakdown of A-level results for each school.
Based on the analysis of the government figures, The Telegraph found that the top 1 per cent of state schools, or 21 schools, achieve better results than 98 per cent of private schools, or 512 schools.
When the point score per pupil is analysed, the top 500 state schools average 883 points while the top 500 independent schools is 845. On this measure, only four of the leading 20 schools in the country are private.
The top-performing state school was Colchester Royal Grammar School, which scored 1430.1 points per pupil.
Eton scored 1004.5 while Harrow scored 1004.8. Grey Coat Hospital, the state school where the Prime Minister sends his daughter, had a score of 807.7.
Less well-known state schools also performed well. Mossbourne Academy, formerly known as the Hackney Downs school in east London, scored 809.4.
Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, which represents 85 per cent of private schools in the country, said the comparison was unfair.
Mr Lenon said: “To compare every independent school in the UK (there are only about 500 that take A-levels) with the top 500 state schools is grossly unfair.” He said it is “a reasonable point that the best state schools get very good results”, but it is the “top 30 per cent of state and independent schools” that should be compared.
“Any parent comparing the independent and state league tables can see the top 200 independent schools outperform most state schools,” he added. Mary Bousted, general secretary at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: "For many people these will be surprising results.
But I myself am not surprised. Teachers in state schools are becoming more effective all the time and they are becoming effective at preparing pupils at important qualifications."
