Public school teachers whose child(ren) attend(s) private schools

[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by tammy-
I attended public schools my whole life and I must say that I am grateful for the education I received from my teachers. I think people tend to criticize public schools and the education that students receive there. I would not send my kids to a private school because I feel that learning starts at home and if I raise my kids right and give them a strong foundation, I won't have too many problems with them.

How optimistic of you. I know a lot of kids raised with some strong foundations who went to public schools. Not all of them went bad of course, but MANY of them did not reach their full potential. The public schools were unable to give them the slightest notion of what was out there for them in the world- academically, with scholarships, professionally with jobs, and let's not even talk about SAT prep.

They were also unable to adequately prepare them for that first year of college. I know so many kids who were completely unprepared for what colleges put on their plate because of the sub-par education the public school system gave them.

This is something that seems to vary by economic levels. If you are from a middle or upper-middle class community then there is no reason in the world not to send your kids to public school for the most part. But for those of us in the urban blue collar or worse neighborhoods (who happen to be raising more than half of all black children in this country)the best thing you could possible do is to get our kids out- and that means private education for a lot of them (I remember at the public school in my neighborhood the drug dealers never bothered to hide. They were sitting on the front steps of the school every day. Why? CAUSE THEY WENT THERE. I was afraid to walk past the school after dark!)


I also learned to deal with various situations that I would have not encountered had I attended a private school.

What situations were these exactly? There are few social experiences in public school that you can not have in private too. In my experience it is sometimes the exact opposite- private school kids have way more exposure to different people and situations. In real life you have to deal with white people. You don't get that in the 95% black public schools with no funding that the majority of OUR children are going to.


I am happy I had the opportunity to attend a school where I did not ge asked ignorant questions.

I attended an all black high school and grade school.

See above point. White people are a fact of life. Teaching others about our culture because they have either been too ignorant or too lazy is an unfortunate fact of life. Going to private school can give you some lessons in diversity - not just with Whites but with Asians and the hispanic diaspora that can be great experience for when you enter the workforce.


I don't think any one should be an adminstrator in a school district and not send his/her child to that school if they live in that district. They don't have that much stake in the district.


I think that's a very naive thought.