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Depends a bit on the district, but I’ll never send my kids to private school. Growing up in a protected bubble creates more harm than good imo. Want my kids to have exposure to a diverse student body.
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If you mean that I want them to grow up to think like me in terms of valuing a diversity of opinion and spending time with others who aren’t exactly like them, yep. You’re right. I don’t in any way think that white people are bad, but I also know that hearing about the Greensboro sit-in from someone who was there is an entirely different experience than reading a textbook written by a white person and sanitized through the textbook approval process. I don’t think that is exactly shocking.
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I went to both private and public school. Public schools tend to have more diversity in thought and background. If you want to prepare your kid for the real world, don’t put them in a hyper homogenized bubble.
Oh and K1 is right about the drugs. My private school had a massive black market in pharmaceuticals for the “smart” kids, and cocaine/party drugs for the wealthy “cool” kids. Most came to school medicated on something.
When I went to public school, the most kids were doing was weed and beers on the weekends.
It’s varies a LOT by geography. In some places, public schools might actually be better than private schools.
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The Raleigh area here in NC has a very complicated public school structure - lots of charter schools (which are public), magnet schools, and “normal” public schools. The “best” school in the area is a charter school, followed by two “normal” public schools, then a magnet school. All public but very different.
ALL of those and many ranked lower than them are better than any of the private schools here. Several very expensive private schools and the big Catholic high school do not offer half the quality of the education of the magnet school my kids go to. They don’t offer the breadth of AP classes (if any), options like an IB program, the number of language class choices (or the ability to get to very advanced levels in those classes), any types of academies (my son is part of the Medical Bioscience Academy within his larger high school, for example), the sports, the choices of extracurriculars, etc. They also have a pay-for-grades structure that isn’t ultimately doing the kids any favors and doesn’t prepare them for the real world.
Another factor is that we believe strongly in ensuring our kids don’t live in a bubble. They go to a school that is ~25% Black, 30% Asian, 35% Caucasian and 10% Hispanic, and that has added real value to their lives. Our private schools are shocking if they have more than 3% students who are Black or Hispanic.
We can afford to send our kids to private school but have zero regrets about sending them to the public magnet school they attend - it is an outstanding school.
Depends entirely on the school district.
My public high school sent at least 10 kids to ivies from my graduating class and all the local private school kids were addicted to drugs
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Well this is flawed..
In the US public schools are generally funded by hyper-local property taxes. Therefore, very wealthy towns have a TON of money for education and very poor town have underfunded systems. The quality of top public schools can rival and surpass private schools. This is why people move to very expensive suburbs, if they can. What I never understood is why folks that live in districts with amazing schools shell out 50k a year for private school.
Agreed. The best public schools are WAY better than ANY private school.
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Top public schools are the best K-12 educational institutions one can get in the country, but the worst ones are warzones
Highly, highly geography dependent
Depends on location. Where I live public schools are appalling. Our neighbors complain about the number of times the police gets called to intervene, have SCARY stories of fights inside the school, and have a lot of racial tension. There are so many issues that academics doesn't even make it to the list (and btw, I really like my street and neighbors, it's just a terrible school district). So private school it is.
Agree with others live in the right place and public all the way. I won’t send my kids to private because the cost is too steep and agree with D1 I want my kids to grow up in a diverse reality not a bubble of rich kids. Also a big believer that your upbringing and the level of engagement by the parents plays a bigger role by setting standards / expectations, enforcing those standards and investing the time so support their growth (e.g. homework, projects, going to meet the teacher).
Depends on regions. I grew up in NY and had a great public school
The best public schools are better than ANY private school ever could be, but they’re aren’t that many good schools in the US.
My public schools class sent 6 people to Harvard. I was not one of them
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I am a POC and live in an area that is about 95 percent POC. I send my kids to private school for diversity, and that they can see how kids that are in different SES live. I like the community that my private school has. Most of the parents know each other and we do a lot of activities together.
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Depends where. I went to public school in NYC and had a good experience. There was def some crime and shady shit but plenty of hardworking students and good extracurriculars
I am pro public schools, however I think those preaching diversity of public schools while saying you need to live near the right one are talking out of both sides of their mouth. You are paying for the good public school in property value and few of the great public school districts have truly diverse student bodies - particularly in the younger grades. Large high schools are sometimes a bit different given that they more often draw from both rich and poor neighborhoods.
I went to fantastic public schools - even through college. But my elementary school was certainly not diverse or representative of my town on any dimension. It had less than 1% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch and was probably 90% white. It became more diverse with middle and highschool, but it was still segregated with most of the rich neighborhoods in one of three middle schools, and one of two high schools. I grew up in a smaller town.
Anyways. It’s a tough decision in a lot of metro areas these days. I don’t have kids yet but know it will be hard to decide what to do if we still live in the city.
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Many send their kids to private schools to meet their community-religious needs (catholic, Jewish, etc)… Others do it for status, others because that’s where “their people are”.
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If I had the means I would def send my kid to private school. For education, safety, etc.
If you’re kid is smart then there’s a nice selection of public schools they can apply to in Chicago. Can’t speak for other schools, but I’m sure there’s options in many places