[annyokie]

I really wish this canard about public schools would stop. My children have gone to both public and private schools over the course of their scholastic careers. I will take the public schools over the private schools everytime.

[Just Lori]

I really wish this canard about public schools would stop. My children have gone to both public and private schools over the course of their scholastic careers. I will take the public schools over the private schools every time.



As a (long ago) student of private schools, I gotta tell you...... I ran academic circles around my public school pals. I had homework EVERY night and EVERY weekend. Half the time, my public school chums had NONE.

When I got to college, I expected to work hard. I knew what was coming. A girl in my psyche class who graduated from a nearby public high school was way over her head. I remember what she said....... "He actually expects us to read TWO chapters in ONE night?"

You see, MOST private schools make students work. They expect results and they push for results. I know some neighbor kids who get "A's" in public school who don't know "two" from "to" from "too", and that's just the beginning of it.

[Servant of the 9]

You must have had really bad private schools.

My son went to highly rated public schools, and they were marginal at best. Some of his teachers were functional illiterates. When notes came home, his mother and I often had to sit and try to parse them and guess at the meaning, they were gibberish. I went to private school and had sompleted all the coursework he had in High School by the 8th grade.

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[TEXOKIE]

Indeed. There really ARE some good public schools out there. I have a relative who teaches third year (junior) English, which as many here may know, is American Literature. She tells her kids the first day of class that because the Bible is the literary basis for much of the body of American Literature, she WILL be teaching it AS a document important to literary understanding. If that is a problem, the kid can transfer into another class freely for that first week. So far, she hasnt had any takers! (She also happens to be the head of the English department of her high school.)

[NJ Neocon]

My experience is opposite yours. Why do you prefer PS?

[Osage Orange]

I will take the public schools over the private schools everytime.

I doubt that you would every time. Granted I would suppose there are wonderful public schools in every state in the nation....Be glad if you enjoy that.

But in many places within this nation there are absolutely horrible schools...that you wouldn't send your worst enemies kids to. I guarantee that.

[chemainus]

I have taughtthousands and the private school students are always two to four years ahead of the public school kids....matched IQ for IQ...and they are taught things like honesty, courage, values, and to disdain the jabberwocky taught in the opublic schools....PS students do not like to go to private schools because they have to work instead of jive shuck