Why Teach In A Private School?

This paragraph in CAPE's wonderfully detailed apologia entitled Why Teach In a Private School? caught my eye. I quote it in toto as I consider it so very important.

"A century ago, many parents counted on schools to help rescue their children from the terrible shadow of poverty. Today, a new generation of children needs deliverance from a far more crushing poverty, a poverty of spirit. In an age which sometimes seems so void of basic values, an age where children are coarsened by the media and numbed by nihilism, parents are calling on private schools to help them infuse their children's lives with purpose and meaning. They desperately want teachers who can enliven the mind as well as the heart; teachers who can call youngsters to a life of service and love; teachers who can not only teach children to read and write, but also to tell right from wrong."

My own 4 Reasons To Teach In A Private School focuses on the core reasons why I enjoyed teaching in a private school.