Reply to Where do private schools really get you in life?

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Where do private schools really get you in life?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somehow these threads always devolve into a bunch of public school parents nodding at each other in satisfaction as they proclaim loudly that there are no benefits to private school. In fact, private schools are positively detrimental!

We get it, folks. You’re happy with the educational choices you made for your family. That’s great. I’m happy for you. Do you really need to go on and on about it?[/quote]

Uh, what? Poster asked a question. People have offered range of perspectives (most of them pro-private school, if you count). Why do you assume that the people who have misgivings about private school's value are all public school parents? Sure there are some people in that category who wind up here because it's on the recent topics list, or whatever, but I'm going to guess that most people on the private school board have some interest in .... private schools.

Of those who may be posting more skeptical perspectives I will bet money that a good number are (I hate to break it to you!) staff and teachers. If you haven't heard an elite private school teacher let her hair down about parents lately, you're missing out. (We can make fun of the Caitlin Flanagan piece all we want, but I know more than one private school teacher who LOVED it.)

In my own social circle, I can think of  quite a few who are anguished about this choice and have moved kids from one type of school to the other as a result, with lasting ambivalence. Often they think their kid would struggle at a public school for one reason or another (and/or they have family money devoted to this purpose that's "use it or lose it") and yet are repelled by the parent crowd and affluenza at the private...  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics