[evad]

You both need to get off the “bash all public schools” bandwagon that is so pervasive on this forum.

Well, let's be factual.

Big city public school schooling is overly expensive, poorly run, indoctrinating instead of educating and, dare I say it, dangerous.

Now, if you want to dispute that statement with facts, have at it.

[Gabz]

You stated it was also outside the big cities in some states.......

I grew up in NYC, I know about big city schools, public and private. Trouble is not confined to public schools, be they in big cities or rural communities.

Where I live, which is very rural, the good kids, academically and socially, do not want to go to the only private HS in the area because it is a haven for the bad kids and the gangs.