re: Do you send your kids to public or private school?

Yeah, horrible

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I did private through 8th.
my Buddhist sect. High expectations and discipline with love and compassion. Low teacher student ratio. $$$$.
High school in terrific well run tamalpais union district in Marin county ca. Grads went to oxford, Stanford uc Berkeley, ucla. Ivy. High expectations backed by discipline.
Yuppie. Sausalito and mill valley.

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110,000 just to get your kid to college is a terrible allocation of resources.

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Not knocking your decision logic just stating a fact.

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Looks like that's exactly what you're doing

Growing up in Texas, private schools are weird and seem unnecessary to me. Still don’t understand why everyone in LA sends their kids to private schools.

As a footnote, I fundamentally don’t believe that religion and school should mix. It’s an archaic and oppressive way to raise children IMO.

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What about the molesters in the catholic schools Tho?

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Just got to warn the kids young. I told my son when he started in kindergarten to never go anywhere alone with a priest. And that if ANYONE ever touched him to let me know and I’d go all Gary Plauche on them.

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Lived in the woodlands area before, obviously all stuff in that area are top notch

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Ditto in Kingwood.

Don't do the
Government schools!!!!

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Still don’t understand why everyone in LA sends their kids to private schools.

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It's very simple. Shouldn't be hard to understand at all. Louisiana public schools rank among the very worst in the entire country, as in 49th or 50th with maybe only Mississippi being worse. There are only a handful of Louisiana public schools that are good, and they tend to be very selective. If you don't happen to live in a parish that has one of the few good public schools, you care at all about your children's education, and you are able to afford it then sending your children to a private school is simply a necessary cost of living in the state.

Right now my sister is trying to get my nephew into one of the selective magnet school systems. He is 3 and had to have an iq test earlier this year to see if he can be admitted into the preschool program. If he isn't then they will strongly have to weigh the options of moving to a different parish a little further away or going the catholic school route.

My family, growing up, was not Catholic at all, and my Dad wasn't even religious in any way, but they sent me to Jesuit of New Orleans because that was the best school that they could afford to send me. This is the reality in Louisiana.

The couple of public schools I’ve visited In LA look and feel just like my public school in Texas.

I just think for whatever reason in LA people have been indoctrinated that “private school is the only way to go.” I guess the money makes people convinced that they’re getting a better product by paying and they want others to spend what they spent.

Does Louisiana (with its high numbers of private school graduate) produce a higher quality average student than Texas? I haven’t seen any numbers, but I would guess probably not.