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Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:07 amby 3geese4me
The time has come for our son to be enrolled into kindergarten. We have debated on whether to send him to a public school or a private school. What turns us off about public schools is that they seem to be extremely over crowded. My supervisors son has 25-30 kids to 1 teacher in his classes. Are the class sizes any different in a private school? We want our son to get a more 1 on 1 education without having to home school him. I know each type has it's pluses and minuses, I just want to hear from those of you with kids who have experience with this.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:13 amby FlintRiverFowler
I went to private school all the way up til highschool. The private school kids were weird, the public school kids were getting pregnant and doin drugs in middle school. Once you get to highschool everybody is bad. The friends I have who stayed in private school have been more successful in life than my public school friends now that were approaching 30.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:16 amby Redbeard
FlintRiverFowler wrote:I went to private school all the way up til highschool. The private school kids were weird, the public school kids were getting pregnant and doin drugs in middle school. Once you get to highschool everybody is bad. The friends I have who stayed in private school have been more successful in life than my public school friends now that were approaching 30.
this explains a lot
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:17 amby FlintRiverFowler
Redbeard wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:I went to private school all the way up til highschool. The private school kids were weird, the public school kids were getting pregnant and doin drugs in middle school. Once you get to highschool everybody is bad. The friends I have who stayed in private school have been more successful in life than my public school friends now that were approaching 30.
this explains a lot
Explains what?
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:24 amby DeadEye_Dan
Oh My. I've got an 11:30 meeting.
It's probably going to go nuclear after I post my reply, I'll wait til you've all had lunch.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:25 amby Redbeard
FlintRiverFowler wrote:Redbeard wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:I went to private school all the way up til highschool. The private school kids were weird, the public school kids were getting pregnant and doin drugs in middle school. Once you get to highschool everybody is bad. The friends I have who stayed in private school have been more successful in life than my public school friends now that were approaching 30.
this explains a lot
Explains what?
FlintRiverFowler wrote:The private school kids were weird
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:26 amby Redbeard
It's a joke. I was joking. Making a funny
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:28 amby FlintRiverFowler
Redbeard wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:Redbeard wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:I went to private school all the way up til highschool. The private school kids were weird, the public school kids were getting pregnant and doin drugs in middle school. Once you get to highschool everybody is bad. The friends I have who stayed in private school have been more successful in life than my public school friends now that were approaching 30.
this explains a lot
Explains what?
FlintRiverFowler wrote:The private school kids were weird
Yeah I never exactly fit in with them either.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:29 amby The Duck Hammer
Nice save.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:31 amby Redbeard
The Duck Hammer wrote:Nice save.
gotta be quick with the disclaimers
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:36 amby FlintRiverFowler
Redbeard wrote:The Duck Hammer wrote:Nice save.
gotta be quick with the disclaimers
Bc you scared.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:37 amby Redbeard
FlintRiverFowler wrote:Redbeard wrote:The Duck Hammer wrote:Nice save.
gotta be quick with the disclaimers
Bc you scared.
truth. Can't upset the bossman's childhood bestie
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:44 amby Woody
I went to both public and private school. From my experience, most private school kids are better educated, but not as socially skilled.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:54 amby The Duck Hammer
Was Olly a weird private school kid or the less successful public school kid?
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:55 amby Olly
The Duck Hammer wrote:Was Olly a weird private school kid or the less successful public school kid?
More like a public school failure.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:07 pmby Woody
Olly wrote:The Duck Hammer wrote:Was Olly a weird private school kid or the less successful public school kid?
More like a public school failure.
you've got a boat... we all know that is the true mark of a successful person.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:07 pmby NuffDaddy
I went to a private Lutheran school from preschool to 8th grade. I graduated 8th grade with 16 kids in my class everybody know everyone which is good and bad. Went to a public highschool that had about 900 kids. Didn't take a whole lot of adjustment for me, but it was definitely different. I also had a way better education going into highschool than the public kids did. My first year and a little bit of the second were basically review.
The downside is you go into highschool with basically no friends and everyone coming from the district already has their groups of friends.
Your best bet would be to go visit the private schools around you and talk to some of the teachers, check out class sizes, cost, whatever matters to you. If you find one you like then you probably will have your mind made up.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:12 pmby FlintRiverFowler
If I can afford it my kid(s) will go to private school. Likely the same one I went to.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:21 pmby rebelp74
Public school
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:21 pmby FlintRiverFowler
rebelp74 wrote:Public school
What kind of ratio do your local public schools have?
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:24 pmby rebelp74
FlintRiverFowler wrote:rebelp74 wrote:Public school
What kind of ratio do your local public schools have?
All depends on school district. The one I was in, here, was 95% white.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:27 pmby FlintRiverFowler
rebelp74 wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:rebelp74 wrote:Public school
What kind of ratio do your local public schools have?
All depends on school district. The one I was in, here, was 95% white.
That's what I figured, around here they are getting dangerously close to 50/50.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:30 pmby rebelp74
FlintRiverFowler wrote:rebelp74 wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:rebelp74 wrote:Public school
What kind of ratio do your local public schools have?
All depends on school district. The one I was in, here, was 95% white.
That's what I figured, around here they are getting dangerously close to 50/50.
Across the bridge, in Shreveport, most are 70% or more black and literally all of them are considered schools in decline due to graduation rate.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:32 pmby FlintRiverFowler
I'm pretty sure both of our public highschools here have lost their accreditation, and the public school teachers are all unionized liberal dems, that will indoctrinate your children with their crazy ideas.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:37 pmby rebelp74
That is really sad.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:55 pmby assateague
I would do just about anything to get my kids back into private school, but the transportation issue is just too difficult to work out. For me, it wasn't necessarily the class size, it was the curriculum and methods of teaching. There were consequences, kids were NOT passed if they didn't earn it, and any bad behavior was punished, not excused away. History was taught as history, not a feel-good social rewriting of events to appease the minority groups. Math and reading were taught by hammering the fundamentals to give a good base, rather than jumping all willy nilly in some misguided notion of "well roundedness".
I just despise the public school system, and what it has become. Even the "superstar" schools and school districts pale in comparison to the education provided by private schools. The fact that the public school unions continue to fight tooth and nail against any sort of voucher system tells me all I need to know- that private is better, which is why they must use the power of the state to keep people "trapped" in their public system.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:37 pmby (MT)Montanafowler
assateague wrote:I would do just about anything to get my kids back into private school, but the transportation issue is just too difficult to work out. For me, it wasn't necessarily the class size, it was the curriculum and methods of teaching. There were consequences, kids were NOT passed if they didn't earn it, and any bad behavior was punished, not excused away. History was taught as history, not a feel-good social rewriting of events to appease the minority groups. Math and reading were taught by hammering the fundamentals to give a good base, rather than jumping all willy nilly in some misguided notion of "well roundedness".
I just despise the public school system, and what it has become. Even the "superstar" schools and school districts pale in comparison to the education provided by private schools. The fact that the public school unions continue to fight tooth and nail against any sort of voucher system tells me all I need to know- that private is better, which is why they must use the power of the state to keep people "trapped" in their public system.
I agree with AT, fuck public schooling. i remember begging my parents to get me out of public schooling, but it never happened. If i have kids someday then i will either home school or private school, public won't even be an option. After hearing all the shit my girlfriend tells me about her job, i'm even more convinced that the public system is a fucking nightmare.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:43 pmby rebelp74
(MT)Montanafowler wrote:assateague wrote:I would do just about anything to get my kids back into private school, but the transportation issue is just too difficult to work out. For me, it wasn't necessarily the class size, it was the curriculum and methods of teaching. There were consequences, kids were NOT passed if they didn't earn it, and any bad behavior was punished, not excused away. History was taught as history, not a feel-good social rewriting of events to appease the minority groups. Math and reading were taught by hammering the fundamentals to give a good base, rather than jumping all willy nilly in some misguided notion of "well roundedness".
I just despise the public school system, and what it has become. Even the "superstar" schools and school districts pale in comparison to the education provided by private schools. The fact that the public school unions continue to fight tooth and nail against any sort of voucher system tells me all I need to know- that private is better, which is why they must use the power of the state to keep people "trapped" in their public system.
I agree with AT, fuck public schooling. i remember begging my parents to get me out of public schooling, but it never happened. If i have kids someday then i will either home school or private school, public won't even be an option. After hearing all the shit my girlfriend tells me about her job, i'm even more convinced that the public system is a fucking nightmare.
Was bullied^
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:44 pmby (MT)Montanafowler
rebelp74 wrote:Was bullied^
true, i was until i put an end to it. but i was talking strictly about education standards.
Re: Public vs Private schooling
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Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:42 pmby Redbeard
rebelp74 wrote:(MT)Montanafowler wrote:assateague wrote:I would do just about anything to get my kids back into private school, but the transportation issue is just too difficult to work out. For me, it wasn't necessarily the class size, it was the curriculum and methods of teaching. There were consequences, kids were NOT passed if they didn't earn it, and any bad behavior was punished, not excused away. History was taught as history, not a feel-good social rewriting of events to appease the minority groups. Math and reading were taught by hammering the fundamentals to give a good base, rather than jumping all willy nilly in some misguided notion of "well roundedness".
I just despise the public school system, and what it has become. Even the "superstar" schools and school districts pale in comparison to the education provided by private schools. The fact that the public school unions continue to fight tooth and nail against any sort of voucher system tells me all I need to know- that private is better, which is why they must use the power of the state to keep people "trapped" in their public system.
I agree with AT, fuck public schooling. i remember begging my parents to get me out of public schooling, but it never happened. If i have kids someday then i will either home school or private school, public won't even be an option. After hearing all the shit my girlfriend tells me about her job, i'm even more convinced that the public system is a fucking nightmare.
Was bullied^
my first thought