Public or Private school?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, that's true. I remember that my school was very close to cutting those classes.

I went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.

I would choose Private school ALL the way!

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.

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)

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.

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 skirt

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.

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.

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 went to Private school all threw Junior High and High School.

I would choose Private school ALL the way!

That's grate! :flowerforyou:

I'm a strident believer in the public school system, and the more people that leave, the worse it will become.

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 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.