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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because I wanted my child to learn more then just read and write.  I wanted her to learn to self advocate, think outside the box and encouraged to take risks.  HHI 225 and we make many sacrifices for her to attend.[/quote]

It is interesting that you think privates are better at teaching kids to self advocate. I am all for privates for people who can afford them and think they can be superior in many ways, but I have always thought that one of the downsides is that kids are a bit more coddled and so don't learn to self-advocate as much. After all, their parents are the customers, which is not true in private schools. [/quote]

I think in public school I learned to self-advocate for my basic needs, like using the restroom, unfair grading (eg when I was falsely accused of plagiarism), or access to medication. But I don’t want my kids to even have to advocate for that crap. I think they’re learning to advocate for their views rather than their right to pee. [/quote]
In my experience with kids in both, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Privates provide a lot of opportunities to learn how to communicate and advocate with adults at an equal level with adults. Public sel-advocacy is more focused on advocating for basic respectful treatment or access to resources, all of which are just accepted as a given in private school. [/quote]
This kind of private v public education is kind of ridiculous.  It's an apples to orange comparison.

Lots of overeducated insecure moms on this blog.

Private schools are small, and it's much easier to deal with truancy, kids roaming the hallways, kids trying to abuse the system and get away with sh1tty behavior, etc.. than in a large public.

If that's what you want to pay for, sure, but it's only "better" because you are paying for that.

During VL, I did consider private for my younger DC who is not as mature for their age (late late summer bday) so DC needs more hand holding, but for my older DC in HS who has always been mature for their age (also summer bday), this DC wouldn't be as challenged in private compared to the magnet public.

After RTS, my younger DC has really flourished and matured, and I think this DC will do very well in our large public that is able to offer interesting class choices and hundreds of clubs to choose from.[/quote]

Why is it that whenever someone posts a question asking for feedback from parents who sent their kids to private school, they’re always answered instead by parents who feel the need to explain why they [i]didn’t[/i] do so? I mean, OK, thanks, have a cookie I guess. [/quote]

Ha! Great question! I think people feel defensive + do not want you to think that they just cannot afford it.[/quote][/quote]

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