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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People comment on our private school choice all the time.  There are many many reasons why we went private.  I use the less offensive reasons when asked for our reasoning behind choosing a private school politely.  When someone is confrontational or nasty, I am less diplomatic.  But I get questions all the time.[/quote]

I am not the above posted but feel the same way.

My more offensive reasons are:
-Class size, at the time we looked our public school we were told that the ideal size was 28 but it could be up to 32, this does include an assistant.  The school we ended up going to has 25 kids.  I have heard the upper grades have 30 kids in the classroom.

-The principal rubbed us the wrong way, although people say great things about him.

-No Spanish class.  We were told that it is an afterschool add on in the upper grades. The school we are at now has Spanish once a week and my son has been taking Spanish since preschool.  The best time to learn a language is when you are really young.

-Big environment.  Public 4-5 classes for K; Catholic 2 classes for K.

-Would need to be in before and aftercare in public; only need to have aftercare in Catholic due to earlier school day start.

-I have been told by numerous people that the teachers are hesitant to discipline the kids  in public school.  They do a really good job of teaching kids guidelines and self control in our Catholic school.

-The public middle school is a total zoo and the police were called last spring to break up a gang fight early one morning.  It is just easier to have your child start at Catholic school in grade K than to transfer them in middle school to avoid this crazy middle school situation.

So while these are really not "offensive", if you tell someone who is sending their child to the public school these reasons why you don't want your child to attend public school, it makes it sound like you think they are making a bad decision.

I typically tell people that the reason why is that we wanted our child to attend Catholic school is that we wanted him to have a Catholic education.  That usually ends the conversation.  And then for people that are really annoying and continue...I just eventually tell them that this is really our business and our decision.

Do tell.  What are the "offensive" reasons?[/quote][/quote]

You are really outing yourself, honey.

I hope you found what you are looking for at St. Louis b/c most of your reasons for not going to WW turned out not to be true.[/quote]

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