[jpachard]

My personal experience is that public school gives you a better, well rounded experience dealing with all walks of life. That said, I was fortunate to go to a very good public school.

The thing that is not mentioned much is that in public schools the kids who were in to drugs did pot and drank. When I went to private school the kids did coke and heroine. Yikes.

Never had to worry personally since drugs just never appealed to me but with more free $$ on hand these kids did some really stupid things.

It also seemed that the rich kids parents were just using the boarding school/private school to get their kids out of the house and used the institution as a way for them to get out of parenting. There were some very messed up kids there which probably contributed to the high end drug use.