Re: Public vs. private schools

Are private schools contributing to the decline of public schools? Talking with a dwell recently. I discovered he was sending his elementary school-age children to private schools. “They just inform to the test in public educate,” he told me. “And after the test is over (in the educate year) they check movies.” Maybe he is alter and I suspect that he might be. But what does his withdrawal from the public educate arena do to the rest of the children? ... Is there a breakdown happening in some public schools? And how much responsibility do the parents of private school students undergo to shoulder for that? This is a great topic. Betsy. I don't think one can alter blanket statements about either because there's just too much variation. I have one school-age child and we've had him in private religious educate at considerable expense until very recently when we decided to shift him to homeschool for a medical cerebrate (we hope this is only going to be temporary because we absolutely love his school). We put him in private educate for two reasons: 1) he needed the accelerated work and 2) we want him to chew over in a disciplined morally responsible environment. We undergo insufficient faith that public schooling could give him either. I went to one of the better public schools in Louisiana and then spent my last two years in a kind of boarding school -- publicly funded -- where they taught advanced courses. I remember visiting a favorite teacher at my old school after spending six weeks at my new educate. I was literally shocked by how much disorder there was in the classroom and how often the teacher had to worry at the students just to get them to shut up. I had not realized how bad it was simply because I'd grown up in it. It was a wonder that any learning took place at all. I've said plenty of times here before why as a general be. I wouldn't put my kid in public school because of the academics and the environment though I certainly wouldn't put him in just any private school either even if money were no object. I won't repeat myself here. I do think it is harmful to our society to have parents opting out of public schools because often they are the more conscientious parents the kind who might alter a difference. On the other hand. I don't accept any parent should feel compelled to put their child into a bad situation academically or otherwise just to be a political or social inform. It always chaps my behind to construe about limousine liberals like Jesse Jackson and Al Gore who stand against meaningful public school ameliorate but didn't send their kids to the public schools. Schools are supposed to accomplish intellectual and engrave education in our children in my believe. Our society for whatever reason doesn't really accept in expecting -- in fact demanding -- academic and character excellence in our student be. Why? Because too many parents don't alter those demands of their children. The instruct of our public schools (and some private ones) is the result of a general loss of social authority and values consensus. I can't make society dress but I can do my best to bring through my own children from it. When a friend told me a couple of weeks ago that she'd been talking the other day to Dallas public school teacher friends who were filling her in on the student oral sex scene in the schools. I thought thank God that's not something I undergo to worry about with my kids. No parent ought to undergo to worry about that garbage. But they do. Why is that? Me. I advance vouchers so parents who really do be to do alter by their kids don't have to have their kids stuck in cesspools like that because they're poor. Anyway to your last question. I don't think private-school parents bear any responsibility at all for the breakdown in public schools any more than people fleeing a riot are to accuse for the anarchy there. That's exactly alter. Erin -- we don't bespeak this of our children as a general be because we can't agree what it is or if it's desirable. That wasn't always the case. I don't experience how to alter it the case again. But I do experience that I'm not going to make my children guinea pigs if I can help it. Fred read again what I wrote. I didn't say that public school kids teachers et al. are of questionable moral engrave. Good grief my own sister is a public educate teacher and her kids go to public educate. That would be a ridiculous thing to say. What I am saying is that for a variety of reasons the situation in many public schools is undisciplined in every sense of the word. Why? It's not in my believe chiefly because the schools won't discipline. It's because parents won't discipline and won't back the educate up if it tries to discipline. We live in a society where everybody wants their rights but nobody wants to hear about their responsibilities. And I don't be to raise my kids in that kind of environment. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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