Thursday, January 31, 2013

Is Private School Better?

I cannot describe how ridiculous it is for parents to fight and brag over what tuition they pay for they're 8 year old to go to school. I grew up going to my assigned public school and never once stepped foot in a private school. However my best friend grew up going to one. Around sixth grade she started getting acne and her classmates started making fun of her. Her confidence was dropping in the fastest way possible. Everyone had that school seemed to have perfect lives and an unending amount of money and my friends life wasn't like that.

She swithed to yet another private school in sixth grade and still hated it. Her and her mm then came over one day and told my mom and I that she was switching to my school.

SHE LOVED IT. When you go to a school thats public and open to everyone, everyone is different. There is nothing to fit in to. You wear the clothes in your closet, not in the uniform drawer. 

By the end of middle school her mom bribed her with a puppy to go back to a third provate school. 

She went for two weeks, where she then transfered to my high school. Graduated on honor roll, and as member of three different clubs at the school. She was accepted to eery college she applied for.

Ive heard people say more that once, that private school are filled with rich kids who got kicked out of public school? I couldnt back up any of my information on that but it makes sense. 

I will happily, one day, send my kids to public school because I'm proud of who I am and who my friend turned out to be too.

GO BULLDOGS!

1 comment:

  1. You're absolutely right. Not everything you pay for is worth the money. It maybe so that private schools could have more challenging courses, but nowadays, so do public schools. There is regular, honors, AP, and IB courses students can take to challenge themselves. Schools also let students move up to the next course in a subject if they excel at it. I knew a kid in middle school and he was extremely bright in mathematics. So smart that every year he was in a math course that was a year ahead. In 8th grade he would go to the local hs and take up math classes there. So the public education system isn't as lackluster than people think it is. It all boils down to the student and the teacher.

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