Why Students Attend Their Socio-Economic Classes

A direct link to schools and why certain students attend these schools can be based upon the socio economic class of students. As seen in figure 1, most of the Private school-sector students are of Middle class (73%) and very few are from lower class (8%), implying how lower-socio economic circumstances can deter a education within a private sector of schooling (Rothman, 2003). From this data (Figure 2), it is observable that from 100 public school students that were surveyed, majority of the students were of the middle socioeconomic class, with a large quantity of lower, 21 students, and 1 lower middle-class, 1 upper class student. Additionally, this questions the equity of school choice as there is an evident divide between the ability …show more content…
This suggests the implications that an implicit market can involve, as students are given less priority of choice but parents enter students into schools regarding their beliefs on effective schooling. Moreover, 22 out of 49 private school children have a no choice in school attendance, 4 out of 7 of our surveyees of independent schools have no choice in the matter for schooling and 24 out of 100 public school students also have no choice in their education. This suggests that only a small minority of public school students have no choice in their schooling, as opposed to the amount of students attending private schooling is less than half the amount of students attending public schools, 44% of ex-private school students believe that they were forcibly entered into schooling, particularly parent-choice being involved, meaning no power in choice for the students. These findings suggest to us that private schools are favoured amongst most parents and that the implicit market, aids parent choice within the school system (Aulich, 2001, p. …show more content…
This implicates many reasons on why students attempt to enter schools that are not situated to where they live and fundamentally suggest the idea that schools have become more competitive in nature, that parents and students attempt to associate with more renowned schools, away from the local community. Hastings and Weinstein (2008), found an important distinction between school preferences for school characteristics and the information they are able to access about the schools, mostly contributing to locality of schools affects student attendance. However, our research suggests that marketing may have an underlying interplay with locality as location has become a negligent factor when attending certain schools. Significantly, our research is consistent in the aspect of proximity with most public school students yet private school students tend to attend schools further away from their local area. J implicates that this is