Ain't you french ?? have you read about how the local folks try to switch to private schools even faster than spots free up for the kids ? And yes I know about elite public schools there, but there are a very tiny part of the total public school system.
The switching is a recent phenomena because the incompetents in the government want to teach kids about "sexuality" theories ( "gender theory", pro-gay specifically) from the youngest age, and parents are voting with their feet. The waiting list for Catholic schools out of reach from these new laws ( private out of state regulation) is indeed at an all time high, but the private one under state religion are or fighting the laws and having problems or losing candidates.
To be fair, analysis of the french school system I read recently pointed that difference in students levels ( there are starker proficiency differences among french students than among most other european kids) come more from the social backgrounds than the fact of the school beeing private or public , kids from wealthier families performing way better than those from more modest backgrounds, and this difference is increasing
This has probably made matters worse (in private school enrolment at least) but the switch to private schools started before Hollande's government.
indeed : it is a practice for many parents to pay as much as they can for private "tutoring" , but the aim is to keep the kids in the public school system. Parents only go private if the kid is a "desperate" case ( face being booted out of the public school system for underpreformance for instance).
Catholic schools are in their huge majority "privée sous contrat" btw, hence state subsidized and not out of state regulation. There are a very few schools "privee hors contrat" in France, which are 100% privately funded and have to follow less state regulations.
sorry I did not use the right word : private under state regulations vs private out of reach from state regulations. They all receive a subsidy somehow : they are all "charities", aka tax exempts and "donations" attract tax relief for the benefactors.
That's absurd. I have quite a few friends in France who are quite succesful as we're talking about those in this thread, and most send their kids to private schools.You can check the results at the baccalaureat and you will see a bunch of private schools with high rankings. Many private schools just accept elite students, in Paris at least.
lol. I am sure they'd be proud to say : I send my kid to private school because he was failing in public school. But strangely the kid who manage in public school have parents boasting how their kid are managing well.
No their kids have never seen the inside of a public school. There are waiting lists in paris in the good private kindergartens and parents (as well as kids sometimes) get interviewed. I'm fairly sure it's the same in many countries when it comes to business families