Private School v/s Public School

[lovelydem]

I have a friend that has to always think she has one upped me.

Now that my husband and I are doing quite well the only thing she can think of is her daughter goes to a private Catholic school while mine go to public school (and i love their school btw)

Is private school really better? Someone told me that at private school the teachers are as qualified as public school teachers are.

What is your take?

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Really comes down to each individual school

And sometimes students work better in public than private and vice versa. Private does not always mean better.

[lovelydem]

2. that's what

I think. Personally I think there is no difference between public, private or home schooling. Depends on what the parent's feel is best for their family and for their kids.

But I didn't know if there was something i was missing.

[redqueen]

3. My take is the teachers can only do so much... and the rest is up to parents

so IMO it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[XemaSab]

6. But if parents are paying 20K a year

you'd better believe that they're going to be involved in their kids' schooling. :P

[redqueen]

8. Well... I'd hope that was the case...

but... well... let's just say that maybe I've met the exceptions to that rule? Perhaps these people seemed to think spending the extra money meant they didn't have to bother as much.

:shrug:

[Iris]

4. what's the big deal? Catholic school is significantly cheaper than most private schools.

Don't let her get under your skin. She's obviously very insecure.

[Burma Jones]

5. Depends on the School

My kids go to private school because my son has Aspergers and we didn't want to send one kid and not the other. The class sizes are very small.

[Taverner]

7. Private school is not better, Public School is not better

Sometimes the public schools in an area are bad, but the private ones are good. Sometimes the opposite is true. Sometimes they're both good and sometimes they both suck.

If your kids love their school and do well, then your school is perfect.

[MountainLaurel]

9. Sounds like my great-aunt

Who used to crow about how her grandchildren went to parochial school while the rest of us heathens (when my great-grandfather left the Church, she was the only one of his children who remained Catholic) went to that horrible, unsafe public school. She was always full of stories about someone getting assaulted at the school or some other horror.

Of course, one of those beloved grandchildren finished the 8th grade at that wonderful Catholic school without really learning how to read (they just kept passing him along, probably not wanting to upset the family of a parishoner amd financial contributor to the school). Because he couldn't read anywhere near grade level, the public high school (there was no Catholic high school in our county) was going to put him in all remedial classes. Rather than face the humiliation :eyes:, his parents enrolled him in the private high school 20 miles away in the next county, which apparently didn't mind a high schooler who read on a 2nd grade level as long as the check cleared.