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re: Raising kids: Public vs Private
Posted on 5/3/17 at 4:09 pm to okietiger
Posted on 5/3/17 at 4:09 pm to okietiger
What school district are you in? We are in Edmond with a 4th and 2nd grader (and a pre-k kid in the fall), and I wouldn't even consider private. I think it's a massive waste of money unless you're in a bad school district.
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Posted on 5/4/17 at 12:46 pm to RoscoeHarper
I agree with the consensus; it depends on your individual child and your individual school district.
We live in an area with excellent public schools, but five elementary schools feed into one middle school and it is not uncommon there for a 6th grade math class to have 40 students in it. Based on that and the factors others have mentioned (6th graders sending nudes and blowing 8th graders in the bathroom, drugs, etc.) we are sending our middle schoolers to private school and will re-evaluate for high school.
For us it was a balance and which could be worse: keeping them sheltered from the real world or plunging them into an overcrowded middle school. We are fortunate to be able to afford this choice and feel it was the correct choice, but far from perfect. At the private high school for example kids were busted for cocaine a few years ago because their folks are wealthy and they can afford it (of course drugs are in the public school as well)...
We live in an area with excellent public schools, but five elementary schools feed into one middle school and it is not uncommon there for a 6th grade math class to have 40 students in it. Based on that and the factors others have mentioned (6th graders sending nudes and blowing 8th graders in the bathroom, drugs, etc.) we are sending our middle schoolers to private school and will re-evaluate for high school.
For us it was a balance and which could be worse: keeping them sheltered from the real world or plunging them into an overcrowded middle school. We are fortunate to be able to afford this choice and feel it was the correct choice, but far from perfect. At the private high school for example kids were busted for cocaine a few years ago because their folks are wealthy and they can afford it (of course drugs are in the public school as well)...
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