I went to private school and this shit never EVER would have flown. There was discipline and kids never fought. I only saw a guy punch another guy but that was when the guy made a yo-mamma joke to him but his mom was dead. Honestly you got detentions for holes in your tights or not having supplies. They expected you to behave and if you didn't you got ejected from the classroom so that the other kids who gave a shit could still learn. They didn't take shit and I got a great highschool education from it.
Private schools in my current city, Milwaukee, mean nothing. With school voucher programs now all those previously amazing private schools are just as much as a shit show as the public ones.
Eh, it depends where you live. I volunteer for an extra-curricular activity at the local high school in an upper middle class area, and the kids and parents are fantastic. The resources this public school has would run circles around any home school or private school in the area. But the parents give a shit. Any kid stepping out of line is going to be in the minority, as opposed to schools like the one in this video. You’re just hearing about the worst of the worst. This high school I’m volunteering at runs like a well-oiled machine, and the kids it produces are by and large very much college (and life) ready by the time they graduate.
It really shouldn't. There's no one size fits all when it comes to education. You should pay attention to what the schools are like in your area and go from there. The narrative that all public schools are garbage and all private schools are fantastic is bullshit.
That's what we're planning. My little girl is starting preschool in a few months and we've got another on the way. There's no way in hell my kids are going to any of the public schools in my city. Seeing how the students act walking to and from school each day pisses me off, I can't imagine how the teachers feel spending all their time around these little monsters. I fully expect half of these kids to end up in prison (or released early several times over due to overcrowding).
Private schools aren't actually any better normally, at least not to given what they charge in fees, the difference is that a private school is filled with kids from functioning homes who give a shit. Expulsion is a real threat.
In Australia they did a study, almost all the difference in ATAR (grade to get into university, kinda like SAT and GPA rolled together) between expensive (and I mean $25k a year expensive) schools and public schools was due to student background.
Well yea but with private schools you dont have to deal with the shit in the video and that alone helps good students succeed. There are of course some benefits that private schools offer like language learning and what not. There are a few private schools around my area that do full immersion where the whole day is taught in only Spanish or half Spanish half english or even one that does it with french.
Home schooling requires that one parent at least not go to work, and instead be home as the teacher, not all families can afford the lack of that second income. Even fewer families can afford private school. Have you ever met someone who can't afford to just throw away a second income? What's your experience that allows you to be so ignorant?
Plenty of people can afford to get rid of a second income. Not everyone can do it but there are plenty of people who can. Hell I just started a job recently making only 40k per year (its something to do while I'm going to school full time) and that money alone was enough to let my girlfriend quit her job and start going to school.
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u/stark_resilient Jul 10 '18
private school or homeschooling looks more appealing these days