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Originally Posted by mattdavis11
My problem with private school is that an element of common sense is lacking. The children are sheltered from the realities of life. The problem associated with public school is that the parents don't give a fuch, and the teachers aren't paid to baby sit.
I can't stand up for either. However, both produce idiots, and we are stuck with a democratic party, so I suppose private and public education are useful.
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What do you base this on?
My son is in 9th grade, this is the last grade he can go to in this particular private school. Then we are forced to send him to public School, but we are trying to get him into a IT school that offers duel enrollment.
He uses his laptop (he must have one at the beginning of the school year) for all his classes, his assignments are either printed out and handed to the teacher, or e-mailed to her. Don't you think this sounds more like the real world than what most high schools do? You know pretty much the same thing they have been doing for the last 20 years?
Groups of 5 kids are in charge of running small businesses in the school that market to the parents products they would use in day to day life, the profits go towards field trips and rewards like pizza parties on Fridays.
I think my son is gaining a LOT more common sense in this school then he would ever in a public HS.
I am nervous about next year when he enters back into it because he has grown used to teachers that are nice and care and want to make a difference. while these type of teachers are in public schools they are an exception not the rule.
My son sucks at Math, I have tried to tried to work with him to no avail, I cannot seem to explain it in a way that he can understand. His Math teacher takes time out of her day to work with him some extra in school during study hall, and he goes to her house 2 nights a week for private tutoring. (yes we pay for that but its like $40 a week she is not concerned about the money, she is concerned about keeping him up to speed)
This is hard to find in the public school system. I know because my son was in it it up to 6th grade when we pulled him out after a teacher decided she did not like him and was attacking him in class. (some of the board members here know Mike, or the Iceman as we who know him well, call him, and they know he is a well mannered, quiet, and respectful young man) Why that teacher did not like him was beyond me, when she resorted to lying about what was going on, the the principle and guidance counselor piled on it was time for us to go.
BTW- 2 other kids in his private school had the same issue with the same teacher and pulled out for the same reason. This seems to be a pattern with this old tenured bat. The system protects her from discipline.