Corranga
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WTF is wrong with you people? , If you are clever enough to do well, why would you need this? , make your own way and don't say because it's my offspring coz that's what the Masons say........
I think it's fair to say that a nurtured child will excel easier than one that is simply left to their own devices.
I expect that the success rates of good schools (be it public or private) is due to some for of pushing, whether that's nurturing or not is a different story.
I think the answer to the Ops question is that it's simply not that easy and the kids character will depend a lot on what the best school is for them, and to think about their character and go visit the school is very important.
Playing stereotypes a bit to try to explain that, a shy kid who isn't physically fit, however is very smart, will probably be held back by a military style boarding school that's constantly pushing them by shouting at them, and by them not necessarily fitting in. A less intelligent kid who does fit in there has potential to excel and do better than the first kid.
I was in the top couple of percent in my school, I was the clever enough kid that made my own way. My school was among the worst in Scotland.
Did I do well, sure, I can't complain. Could I have done better if I wasn't at a school where lessons were constantly disrupted by other idiots who would rather get a toilet pass to smoke in the toilets, setting off fire alarms and even setting the building on fire, bully folk, set gas taps alight in science class, sell and do drugs outside during breaks, skip classes to chuck stones at windows of other classes, deliberately destroy equipment for fun, steal / hide / vandalise workbooks and other kids work, have entire classes cancelled so staff could basically interrogate or discipline, or simply preach about the state of thing / investigate vandalism to school or staff or student property etc. I think I might have. This doesn't mean a private school of course.
Also, this all insinuates that how clever you (or which school you go to) are aligned with how well you do in life, which of course isn't true at all, but the biases of where you are born and in what society that happens to be are a whole different topic.