Public or Private school?
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I am a product of public schools. In several different states as my father was military. It was a joke. Really, our public school system ought to be ashamed. If I had children, I would send them to private school. It wasn't until I got to college at Georgia Tech that I was challenged in any way.0
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Probably Private. The public schools in the area I grew up in really aren't bad in terms of grades and teaching etc but having gone to them myself I know we still had our fair share of disruptive kids, ones that didn't care at all about doing well and I wouldn't want my children growing up with that kind of influence.
Now I know all schools have problem kids but it always seems to be (bit of a generalisation here!) the ones with the issues, 90% of them are from broken/messed up homes, people who's family don't really care much for education, and the way I see it, if a family is paying out thousands a term for their children to go private, most of them will likely be hardworking people themselves and very fussed about the education they're paying for!
The one thing that would worry me with private schools, is mixing with children who think money is the be all and end all of life, and are spoilt. No matter how much money I had I don't want to be (nor want my kids to be) snobby about it, and think they are above others because of it. Or think that they deserve all the material things in the world just because we can afford it.0 -
Actually how good a school is depends on the individual school, not its classification as public or private. Again, your child can always take advantage of the AP and Honors programs at public school, and it is far easier to be at the top of your class at a public school. I know some issues of public school includes class size, but that isn't an issue in advanced classes because less people take them. In my old high school, which contained 3000+ students, AP and Honors classes contained 14-24 students per class.0
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My kids are both adults but if I could have afforded it when they were in school they would have been in a private school. I would love to see my grandkids go to a private school. Hopefully within the next year or two , my daughter and son-in-law will be able to put them in a private school.0
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Actually how good a school is depends on the individual school, not its classification as public or private. Again, your child can always take advantage of the AP and Honors programs at public school, and it is far easier to be at the top of your class at a public school. I know some issues of public school includes class size, but that isn't an issue in advanced classes because less people take them. In my old high school, which contained 3000+ students, AP and Honors classes contained 14-24 students per class.
My worry is that by the time my kid gets to highschool the funding won't be there for these type of classes. It would be hard to believe that they would be cut, but everything else is being cut now in Oregon so it isa possibility.0 -
If money were not an issue, private school for sure.0
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Well, that's true. I remember that my school was very close to cutting those classes.Actually how good a school is depends on the individual school, not its classification as public or private. Again, your child can always take advantage of the AP and Honors programs at public school, and it is far easier to be at the top of your class at a public school. I know some issues of public school includes class size, but that isn't an issue in advanced classes because less people take them. In my old high school, which contained 3000+ students, AP and Honors classes contained 14-24 students per class.
My worry is that by the time my kid gets to highschool the funding won't be there for these type of classes. It would be hard to believe that they would be cut, but everything else is being cut now in Oregon so it isa possibility.0 -
Private school! My parents sent me to private school from k-7th grade, and I am so thankful! Even though I went to public highschool, I think I may have recieved a higher quality education and made better friends in a private highschool.0
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I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!0 -
I teach in a public school, and my son just started kindergarten in the same district. I do hold my kids to a very high standard and my classroom is very rigorous...but I know that's not the case everywhere.
Many of the private schools (and charter schools) in my area are a total joke..started by disgruntled parents because their kids weren't treated like royalty, or the kids got kicked out of public school for drug issues.
I'm a strident believer in the public school system, and the more people that leave, the worse it will become. In my state, private and charter school teachers don't have to be certified, so I would never assume that because the school is private the education is automatically better. Sometime it is and sometimes...it's not.
I'm fortunate to live in an area that, despite budget issues and a school board that really doesn't like teachers, we consistently have some of the highest test scores and graduation rates in the state. I could see, however, sending my kids to a private school if the public schools were really, really horrible--which is how the whole charter school system started.
I guess everyone knows what is best for their family, and I really hope this doesn't become a public-school bash-fest.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
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I went to public school and my sister went to private school. From what I have learned from her and experienced for myself is that there are a lot of regular students in both and some **** tards in both but in private school the teachers can devote more attention to the kids and basically keep a closer watch. I don't know about how rigorous the academic programs were at her private school but my public school was an absolute joke, I literally would have learned more if I had spent those 4 years working at McDonalds. That being said, I did move on to college and am a successful 4.0 student so there is hope for public school kids, don't worry.0
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Boarding school, got expelled,,,,that feckin' worked....lol0
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My kids go to public school. I don't agree with the private schools locally and they don't offer as many programs as the public school. Choice may be different if we lived in a large city but due to what my personal options are no doubt public is our choice. My husband and I also went to public school and we turned out fine. He did go to a private college but it was the only college in town (fighting cancer he couldn't add in traveling for school too)0
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umm...good argument for private schools. :flowerforyou:I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!0 -
I'm not gonna be able to read this thread without my head exploding, given interesting comments like "being able to say God without getting in trouble" (public schools release children from EDUCATION time to go to "release time for religious education" and it screws with the schedule for academic classes").
Just something to think about. My family is Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran. Family of origin that is. They are EXTREMELY rigid and conservative in their views. EXTREMELY. And there's some great people in the synod and all that. AND THEY'RE SO EXTREME in their conservativeness, they tend to like to shelter their children and will sacrifice a GREAT deal to keep their little popkins safe from the big bad "world" and its "worldliness". Really nice people though. Working class, salt of the earth folks. Who go through GREAT expense and sacrifice to send their little ones to K-12 church-based education.
Yeah. And I was going to public school and one of my boyfriends in high school had transferred to our school from the religious school at my family of origin's home church. Yeah. Regularly, every day regularly, LOTS of the kids were doing lines of coke in the bathroom. Cocaine. Not Coca-Cola. And the girls were sluts.
My aunt who was sent to a WELS church in another state as a child--boarding school? Yeah, they got blasted every weekend. EVERY weekend. Junior high.
So make your choices, but I was never drunk before I graduated and I've never actually seen cocaine and pot only once. I got a half tuition scholarship to the private university I went to, and started as a Sophomore. Public school.
Plus the standards for teachers are generally higher and the pay higher to work in a public school. Another thing to think about.0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
Oh. Oh my.0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
And I bet you still own your skirt0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
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And don't even start me on the ridiculousness of homeschooled kids who have joined the public school (they ain't all winning the spelling bees) and charter schools. My uncle (also WELS) sends his kids to the most ridiculous charter school because he won't send them to "government" schools. Government money is fine but not government standards.
yeah, his kids have been successful. The oldest failed out of two (2) colleges--one an extremely expensive right wing "university" that chooses not to be accredited (how do you fail out of that?!?!?) and the other a large public university. That kid also went to private Christian school.
He has five more kids, and its hard to keep straight, but generally. Yeah, no. Not stellar academically. NOT a big win for the charter/homeschool/insular-Christian-school movement.0 -
And don't even start me on the ridiculousness of homeschooled kids who have joined the public school (they ain't all winning the spelling bees) and charter schools. My uncle (also WELS) sends his kids to the most ridiculous charter school because he won't send them to "government" schools. Government money is fine but not government standards.
yeah, his kids have been successful. The oldest failed out of two (2) colleges--one an extremely expensive right wing "university" that chooses not to be accredited (how do you fail out of that?!?!?) and the other a large public university. That kid also went to private Christian school.
He has five more kids, and its hard to keep straight, but generally. Yeah, no. Not stellar academically. NOT a big win for the charter/homeschool/insular-Christian-school movement.0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for private school.0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for private school.
Nope
I may have just changed my mind.0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
This is why I plan on selling all my twinkie babies on the black market. :flowerforyou:0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
What did you throw?0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
That's grate! :flowerforyou:0 -
i went to both. I think your argument is perfectly dispelled based on the overall cirriculum standards and scoring levels of the educational facilies you are evaluating.
I was an Honors student at both levels and found school rather boring. Having gone to both a Catholic Private and non-religous private I found to be mored bored off my rocker than when I was at public school. That could be a direct effect of the social standards of the kids and their families, or not...
I say evaluate and choose wisely0 -
I get what you're saying. I do. But if it's terrible, why should they STAY? The kids who want a better education should not have to stay just because it'll "make public schools worse." It's a sad thing when whiny parents want their kids treated like "royalty," but it's quite another when the advanced kids just aren't challenged because the teacher has to educate/cater to the class average. AP and honors classes just weren't challenging for me. Nor for a lot of my classmates. And I went to school in several different states, so it wasn't just one school system that was bad. I opted to skip my senior year entirely and attend classes at the university.I'm a strident believer in the public school system, and the more people that leave, the worse it will become.0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
This is why I plan on selling all my twinkie babies on the black market. :flowerforyou:
I just wash them down the drain0 -
I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.
I would choose Private school ALL the way!
What did you throw?
Junior High and High School. Pay attention.0 -
I went to a private school from the age of 4 to 16, but now I attend a public sixth form.
I'd love to give my future children a private school education and I plan on doing so.0
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