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Text 3. Private school
Pri vate schools, in the United States, Australia and other English-speaking countries
(with the exception of the United Kingdom), are schools not administered by local or
national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in
whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds. In Australia
the use of the term is generally restricted to primary and secondary educational levels, and
not applied to college or tertiary-levels
Private education covers the whole gamut of educational activity. Private schools range
from pre-s chool to tertiary level ins titutions . At the top of the heap are private colleges and
universities such as Yale, Princeton and Harvard which are world renowned.
The next category is the preparatory school or "prep school". These are secondary
schools (high schools) which are designed to prepare a student for higher education. Many
of these schools are highly selective, accepting only a very small percentage of applicants.
Tuition at private secondary schools varies from school to school. High tuition, schools
claim, is used to pay higher salaries for the best teachers, and also used to provide enriched
learning environments and services such as libraries, science laboratories, and computers.
Graduates of preparatory schools are often actively sought by colleges due to the colleges'
confidence that the s tudents will be we ll educated.
Many private schools are boarding schools. Some military schools are privately owned
or operated as well. Trade or vocational schools are also usually private schools where
s tudents can learn skills in a trade which they intend to make their future occupation. Trade
schools exist in a variety of occupations from beauticians' schools to prestigious schools for
the performing arts.
Religiously affiliated schools (also called parochial schools) form a distinct category of
private school. Such schools teach religious lessons, often alongside a secular education, to
ins till re ligious knowledge and a s trong religious identity in the s tudents who attend.
Many alternative schools are also privately financed (though some prefer to be called
independent schools rather than private schools to avoid possible connotations of prep-
school elitism). Private schools can often avoid some state regulations which might make
alternative methods of schooling more difficult, and they are often easier for a small group
of committed parents or teachers to create and maintain than state-funded schools.

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