Do you want your kids to attend Public or Private school? (High School)

I want my kids to at least go to a private Catholic High School.

Given the quality of public education over here, private schools are definitely the way to go.

Regular old public school, like I went to.

Catholic high school wouldn't be bad, it's what I went to.

Just want to let people know that the education systems in Canada are different from American education. At least in Ontario, Catholic high schools aren't tuition-based as they may be in the US. Provincially funded, we don't pay a dime directly.

Public.

Why pay for private when you can find a good public school and get the same quality education?

Regular old public school, like I went to.

barcx17

I'm not sure. I come from public school and even though I feel parts of my education suffered because I went to one I also feel I walked away with more because I had to deal with a wide variety of social situations and problems that come with going to a school filled to the brim with people you don't like and I would like my child to be able to experience those same situations.

A lot of my friends who went to private school came away smart and well spoken/educated but they really have no experience in many situations. Every school differs but this is pretty consistent in my friends who came from different private schools.

I'd find a good public school for my child(ren).

If I'm lucky enough to have kids, it'll be private for them. It's so much better in almost everyway, and I say that from personal experience.

I'd find a good public school for my child(ren).

DJ-Lafleur

Public

Private with religion. I don't need my kids around those pot heads and gang bangers in public schools. Plus I want them to have a better education.

Private with religion. I don't need my kids around those pot heads and gang bangers in public schools. Plus I want them to have a better education.

Hungry_Jello

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Private with religion. I don't need my kids around those pot heads and gang bangers in public schools. Plus I want them to have a better education.

sSubZerOo

Wow you hit the nail on the head. A lot of truth in this post.

I would want them to go to a public school.

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Private with religion. I don't need my kids around those pot heads and gang bangers in public schools. Plus I want them to have a better education.

sSubZerOo

It would just depend on the situation and the kid. Example, my parents planned on all three of us kids to go to public schools, and my older sister graduated from one, but I'm graduating from a charter school and my little brother is diabetic so he's doing public. If it wasn't for his Type One Diabetes, though he'd be at a charter school too. Just depends on the situation at the time.

Public.

Public school. I would want my kids to have a social life.

To add on to my post Private school is vastly superior to public school if you can afford it. They bend over backwards to get you into the university you want and they have superior facilities if you get into a good one. Academic competition is high and it keeps your kids intelligent and on their feet. It's great and as much as I may hate it, I love it for what it does for me. Toriko42

My public high school was one of the top schools in the state. TBH we were probably better than most of the private schools in the area, especially if the fact that our Academic Bowl team won the state championship my last year there and had always placed in the final rounds each year prior (keep in mind the teams we competed against were from both public and private schools). Most kids went to good schools and the ones in the top ranks of the class typically went to schools like Yale, Northwestern, Emory, etc. Hell, I go to Emory right now and there's at least five other people going there from my senior class alone. Walking on campus is like a ****ing high school reunion for me.

Public school can be just as good as private if your kids go to school in the right area. Unless the public schools in my area sucked I would send my kids to public school. If the schools did suck then I would put them in private. However, I'd personally prefer to save the mountain of cash that I would pay in high school tuition for their college tuition instead. It would be pretty stupid if my kid went to a great private high school but then had to settle for an average state university because I didn't have enough cash to blow on a world-renowned university.

Public school. Not only are they free to learn a secular education that promotes tolerance and open-mindedness, but they will receive a proper social education as well among their peers.

Public school. Not only are they free to learn a secular education that promotes tolerance and open-mindedness, but they will receive a proper social education as well among their peers.

foxhound_fox

Public school. Not only are they free to learn a secular education that promotes tolerance and open-mindedness, but they will receive a proper social education as well among their peers.

foxhound_fox

And they won't by going to a private school? And define what is a "proper social education".

And they won't by going to a private school? And define what is a "proper social education".oldmanriver1

As far as I assume the definitions for Private and Public are similar in America as here in Australia, but there are some differences. I'm attending a private Catholic school (ugh) but I'll probably send mine to a regular private school as I probably wont baptise my children.

[QUOTE="oldmanriver1"]And they won't by going to a private school? And define what is a "proper social education".foxhound_fox

The role religion plays in a private school is certainly not as big as people make it out to be TBH. The private school I went to only had one half an hour chapel service a week and they don't exactly try to force religion down your throat. If your not a christian no-one will ever say you are wrong for believing this or anything. Probably varies on the school tbh.

This is a huge misconception. You'll find that in an all boys school that they will often organise activites with other girl schools so that you get to meet and get to know other girls. Most people at an all boys school usually socialise with girls outside of school quite easily.

You seem to have a very stereotypical view of a private school. I mean I go to a private school now, and it is co-ed, no uniform and no religion. Just because its a private school doesn't mean it will have religion etc.

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[QUOTE="oldmanriver1"]And they won't by going to a private school? And define what is a "proper social education".oldmanriver1

The role religion plays in a private school is certainly not as big as people make it out to be TBH. The private school I went to only had one half an hour chapel service a week and they don't exactly try to force religion down your throat. If your not a christian no-one will ever say you are wrong for believing this or anything. Probably varies on the school tbh.

This is a huge misconception. You'll find that in an all boys school that they will often organise activites with other girl schools so that you get to meet and get to know other girls. Most people at an all boys school usually socialise with girls outside of school quite easily.

You seem to have a very stereotypical view of a private school. I mean I go to a private school now, and it is co-ed, no uniform and no religion. Just because its a private school doesn't mean it will have religion etc.

lol I don't have to go to an hour chapel service a week or anything. We have morning prayer that goes for maybe 2 minutes and a school mass once a term thats the first 3 periods. We used to have a ***** mass once a year but I'm in year 11 now so I don't think they do it for 11 and 12. Mines co-ed but with uniform and RE is compulsory, but you just take ethics which is a major bludge and you spend the year watching films and talking about the ethical issues in them.

[QUOTE="oldmanriver1"]And they won't by going to a private school? And define what is a "proper social education".foxhound_fox

I'd send my children to a state school, with extra tuition. I don't want my kids spending too much time around rich kids and snobs - it would give them a warped sense of what's important.

Bizarrely enough, 'public schools' is what we call the most selective private schools in England.

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Many private schools are religious-based. When my children learn about religion, they will learn about it from me. They go to school to learn all the basic necessities to function in secular society (math, science, language, writing, reading, social studies and physical education). Religion is a private matter meant for our home, not a school (unless it is religious studies at the university level).

Also, many private schools are single-gendered, where a "proper" social education would be impossible, since there would be a very huge gap in their experiences with the opposite sex. Hell, I went to public school and I had very few experiences with the opposite sex, going to a male-only school would have only made things worse.

freek666

The role religion plays in a private school is certainly not as big as people make it out to be TBH. The private school I went to only had one half an hour chapel service a week and they don't exactly try to force religion down your throat. If your not a christian no-one will ever say you are wrong for believing this or anything. Probably varies on the school tbh.

This is a huge misconception. You'll find that in an all boys school that they will often organise activites with other girl schools so that you get to meet and get to know other girls. Most people at an all boys school usually socialise with girls outside of school quite easily.

You seem to have a very stereotypical view of a private school. I mean I go to a private school now, and it is co-ed, no uniform and no religion. Just because its a private school doesn't mean it will have religion etc.

lol I don't have to go to an hour chapel service a week or anything. We have morning prayer that goes for maybe 2 minutes and a school mass once a term thats the first 3 periods. We used to have a ***** mass once a year but I'm in year 11 now so I don't think they do it for 11 and 12. Mines co-ed but with uniform and RE is compulsory, but you just take ethics which is a major bludge and you spend the year watching films and talking about the ethical issues in them.

Half an hour, not an hour. Yeah RE was also compulsory at my old school, but it wasn't really religion either. More like ethics. All we did for a whole semester was watch the matrix trilogy lol. I don't know what benefit watching the matrix trilogy would've given us but it was pretty fun

I'd send my children to a state school, with extra tuition. I don't want my kids spending too much time around rich kids and snobs - it would give them a warped sense of what's important.

Bizarrely enough, 'public schools' is what we call the most selective private schools in England.

jimmyjammer69

I can already tell you've never been to a private school. Serioulsy 99.9% of people at private schools are fine. Its almost as stupid as saying everyone who goes to a public school is a druggie

I went to a Catholic high school, so I guess I'd want to continue to tradition. I'd honestly let my kid choose though. It's their years, so why force him/her to go somewhere they don't? Unless they choose a school with rampant crime, then no, I get to choose :P

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I'd send my children to a state school, with extra tuition. I don't want my kids spending too much time around rich kids and snobs - it would give them a warped sense of what's important.

Bizarrely enough, 'public schools' is what we call the most selective private schools in England.

I can already tell you've never been to a private school. Serioulsy 99.9% of people at private schools are fine. Its almost as stupid as saying everyone who goes to a public school is a druggie

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[QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"]

I'd send my children to a state school, with extra tuition. I don't want my kids spending too much time around rich kids and snobs - it would give them a warped sense of what's important.

Bizarrely enough, 'public schools' is what we call the most selective private schools in England.

jimmyjammer69

I can already tell you've never been to a private school. Serioulsy 99.9% of people at private schools are fine. Its almost as stupid as saying everyone who goes to a public school is a druggie

I've been to both private and public schools and the kids were more or less the same. No rich snobs in the private school and no violent druggies in the public ones. Now if you go to some ultra-elite academy that charges more in tuition than Harvard, then yeah, it's probably filled with rich snobs. Likewise, if you go to an inner city school in America a lot of the kids are going to be disrespectful and violent. But ignoring those two extremes, private schoolers aren't much different than public schoolers.