[TitanicMan2003]

I went to City High, about the only high school in the whole district without all these problems (at least it didn't 4 years ago), so of course that's always the one they talk about cutting the budget for.

What I find for a lot of the area Christan schools (a generalization, I know, I've had good friends who have gone to these schools) is that the kids tend to be very cliquish they've gone to school with each other since they were small, then to the same high school, then probably to to the same college and end up working with/for each other and never venture out past their own groups. I know that my brother, sister and I all asked our parents at some time or another if they would have sent us to Christian High if they had the money, and each time they said no.

In any case, my brother and sister never put up with GRPS. My parents got them into East Kentwood High through schools of choice. They decided that after I graduated, they wanted nothing more to do with GRPS (don't get me started on all the boneheaded things that district did, I'll never shut up).

MGY

[Clemenza]

What I find for a lot of the area Christan schools (a generalization, I know, I've had good friends who have gone to these schools) is that the kids tend to be very cliquish they've gone to school with each other since they were small, then to the same high school, then probably to to the same college and end up working with/for each other and never venture out past their own groups.

Uh, its called "community" and "networking", which is how it is in the real world. I work for a multinational financial firm and its not surprising that a disproportionate percentage of folks that I work with went to private (especially Catholic) high schools.

Of course, you can value "diversity" and want your kid to be the same as the unwashed masses, but that's your perogative.