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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

The drugs fighting thing; if the parents provide great support and rules the child won't slip into this sort of lifestyle. I went to both private schools and public.

Depends upon the schools/area. In that school, I'd have either ended up getting my butt kicked or learning to fight. My first day of class in the 5th grade, 2 big fat kids got into a fistfight in the middle of the class room. The teacher couldn't stop them. It was a very rough school that apparently served a very poor part of town.

We moved and I eventually ended up going to high school in Northern Virginia. I went to a public school. It was top notch as far as public schools and academics. We'd generally have several folks get perfect 1600s on the SATs each time they were given. The school had about 3200 students. There were 700 in my graduating class. There was drugs and fighting in that school, but it was much less prevalent than the other school. The high school that I graduated from was a top notch public school.