It is not necessary to correct the imbalance between public and private school sports teams. Private schools offer an additional service that public schools cannot offer. That service offers better teachers up to better coaches. There are no rules on how to raise money for their athletic programs unlike public schools. Because of athletic success, more and more student athletes want to attend private schools. Which in turn gives the student athlete a better opportunity to be recruited. No, private schools don't need to adapt, public schools need to improve their view of athletics. There is one thing that many public schools do very well is make them magnet schools for the arts, drama and sciences, but they never get to the right level. athletics theme. This is why public schools fail to meet the accreditations of private schools. When considering private schools, the expectations of parents and students are to have qualified coaches and parents are willing to pay for skills at that level. When will the public school system improve its fields and weight rooms compared to those of private schools? Private schools have set the bar to where we should be. Because we tell our students every day to work hard and you will reap the rewards. We don't ask our student athletes to lower their standards, so why should we? The number one goal of any high school athletic department is to assist student athletes. (Austin, 2012-13) When you look at private schools, they achieve these goals. It all comes down to haves and have-nots, the people with the most money win. In this case we are talking about private schools. The largest gap between public and private schools is the 14.6% budget of public schools......middle of paper......Tracy, D. (2010, 11 29). Public vs private. The question of private school. Retrieved from http://www.examiner.com/article/public-vs-private-the-private-school-arguement(Tracy, 2010)Tracy, D. (2010, 12 6). Public vs private...the solution. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.examiner.com/article/public-vs-private-the-solution&sa=U&ei=z6uVUvZzkKqQB5yygcAP&ved=0CAYQFjAB&client=internal-uds-cse&usg= AFQjCNHEFHzURnMrqEzjGhOth0-B2PbeOw(Tracy, 2010)Milligen, D.V. (2013, 11). High school athletic directors are hiring more off-campus coaches. Retrieved from http://www.athleticbusiness.com/articles/article.aspx?articleid=4092&zoneid=9(Milligen, 2013)Austin, M. (2012-13). Athlete participation and budgets are growing. Retrieved from http://www.coachad.com/pages/Spre/Balancing-Budgets-Where-Does-Your-School-Stand.php(Austin, 2012-13)