I thought about this question for a long time myself. When I was in school my teachers came from my community and most of them were related to me somehow. And my child's father was brought up the same way. Actually his mom was his second grade teacher.
I don't want my child to go to a Christian private school, because I believe that school(state) and religion should be separated. And I would rather he learned about sex education and etc rather than learn religion. Anyways my child will go to a public school...either at the one I'm working at or the one his father teaches.
(He's only a year now)
Anyways Public and Private shouldn't be the issue...I think it's the parents. If they show more initiative and get involved more schools would be outstanding.
Why not join the PTA and help out before your child attends that school. Implement programs that way when your child get there they will already have a foundation.
Private schools have no means of rating students the way public schools does. They don't have tracking or mandatory end of the year testing. The teachers don't have to be certified or have credentials and undergo testing the way teachers do in a public school. (Depends on the State) Also, because it's privately funded the parent is going to have to pay for a lot of the extra-curricular activities.
Also, what about the child's friends from the neighborhood...what about when the public school is having after-school activities, field day, sports and etc. and the private school isn't offering that. It could work vice versa.
But for one I believe in the public education system. I admit there are a lot of teachers that are burned out and don't care that much...But I think it's the parents fault. They expect the school to raise the child for them.
They are so many students out there they don't respect their elders and no one cares about them. I know for myself I have pretended to give up on some students after trying several times to reach them. And finally when they realized I was doing activities with the "good/well mannered" children they turned into "good/well mannered" children. It's too bad I had to pretend to ignore before they finally got the message.
The only thing I am saying is don't knock the system until you experience first hand.
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