Reply to Culture and public vs private school

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Culture and public vs private school "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The code isn't private school but money. It just appears and is reinforced more often at private schools for obvious reasons. But the same code is found at fancy suburban high schools in places like Greenwich and Bronxville while plenty of private school grads languish in obscurity and mediocrity.

People overthink this and social engineering too much. Going to public school doesn't make you nicer. Going to a more diverse school doesn't make you more tolerant. The vast majority of people will grow into an innately comfortable network of likeminded peers based on personalities and interests and expectations so they will end up in homogenous environments one way or another.

[/quote]

I disagree. Going to school with classmates who live in subsidized housing, or can’t afford to eat out, or who get free lunch every day, or who don’t have passports, can’t afford summer internships, or who have a parent in jail… these are differences that won’t been seen and accepted as “normal” in private schools.[/quote]

It is important that kids know kids who are in lower SES so we break the cycle of thinking people are poor due to moral failure. [/quote]

Well I’m not sure that is what they will gain…

There are a LOT of lower SES kids that are disproportionately more problematic; breaking school materials/property, starting fights, disregard for rules, cursing at teachings.  Of course not all, but your child will definitely see the low SES being a huge headache for the school and learning.  Call it moral failure, call it poor parenting, call it not ever being taught better, call it whatever, but it will be seen[/quote]

You should stop referring to this a only a lower SES problem, because their are a number of HIGH SES kids who cause headaches for teachers and schools, not to mention their parents.  Please believe that all High SES kids are not walking around with halos.[/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