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re: Private school vs Public School
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:38 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:38 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I may be biased but the private school here had/has a much worse drug rep than the big publics, per capita.
I always assumed that was similar across the board but I may be primed to believe that.
I always assumed that was similar across the board but I may be primed to believe that.
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Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:40 am to Mariner
quote:See this is where I disagree based on my private school and my kids private school experience
Also, you are part of a community that supports the administration, and the administration/ admin cares about your child and gives support.
Did the admin care and want everyone to do well? Yes of course. But in terms of support, I just don’t think it’s really there. Not for a nefarious reason, but just because they can’t. If your child struggles, it’s pretty much “get a tutor on your own or maybe this isn’t the place for them”. Now there is no ill will behind it most of the time, but they just don’t have the manpower to give special or added help themselves during the actual school day
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:40 am to Mariner
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Public schools have great people, but your child is thrown in the pot with both great families, shitty ones, and everything in between. This mindset gets passed on to the kids which could influence your child
I don't want sheltered children.
Again, when you get to EBA/NOLA levels, obviously that goes beyond education and being sheltered. But in a normal, good high school, I hope my kids meet a wide slice of the population. I'd much rather have my kids make mistakes when they're moldable and where the stakes are lower (high school) than in college.
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:41 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:
I may be biased but the private school here had/has a much worse drug rep than the big publics, per capita.
The kids at the private school I went to had better drugs than the public school kids
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:41 am to Pvt Hudson
It’s a toss-up imo, but that’s not factoring in subtle things.
The home value appreciation in the Heights is insane, and one could come out on top financially by sending the the kids to public K-5 or K-8 and then to a private high school.
The home value appreciation in the Heights is insane, and one could come out on top financially by sending the the kids to public K-5 or K-8 and then to a private high school.
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:44 am to SlowFlowPro
The private school kids were smoking some weed and doing some blow
The public school kids were huffing Freon, chain smoking cigarettes, smoking k2, and popping xans before class
The public school kids were huffing Freon, chain smoking cigarettes, smoking k2, and popping xans before class
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:44 am to SlowFlowPro
Yeh I wouldn’t let the drug angle sway you one way or the other. Drugs were readily available at Catholic. And not just the “bad crowd” did them.
Drugs are going to be around and very much in your kids life no matter where they go
Hell we had a drug arrest on campus when I was there. Kid sold crushed up Advil to another kid saying it was Coke
Drugs are going to be around and very much in your kids life no matter where they go
Hell we had a drug arrest on campus when I was there. Kid sold crushed up Advil to another kid saying it was Coke
This post was edited on 3/4/23 at 8:46 am
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:46 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Florida?
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:47 am to patnuh
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I just looked at the STA and SSA sites and they are at $10k. I think Hannan might be a little more. I was sending my kid to ASH in New Orleans so I know they can get a little pricier.
In BR for HS. Uhigh is probably cheaper but it's not a traditional private school and good luck getting in if you don't work at LSU or run a 4.3
Catholic/St Josephs - 12-13k
St Michaels - 11-12k
Parkview - 15-16k
Dunham - 21k
Episcopal - 20k
This post was edited on 3/4/23 at 8:50 am
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:47 am to Keys Open Doors
Florida… parish
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:49 am to CeauxPilot
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Where would you send your child and why?
My kids go to public school. You already know why.
There's a very minority group of people at their school. If that very small group were majority, you can bet my kids wouldn't be going there.
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:50 am to CeauxPilot
Private > Public 100% of the time if you exclude magnets
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:55 am to BumKnee
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Private > Public 100% of the time
You guys need to go visit some of those really small, rural private schools
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:57 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I’m surprised anyone outside of the Northshore would be able to afford coke, tbh.
I guess my high school would be an easy guess if you were going to pick schools where people did it based on the demographics, and pretty much no one did.
I guess my high school would be an easy guess if you were going to pick schools where people did it based on the demographics, and pretty much no one did.
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:58 am to fallguy_1978
quote:
ids at the private school I went to had better drugs than the public school
Yeah much more heroin/coke than publics
Posted on 3/4/23 at 8:59 am to lsupride87
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Drugs are going to be around and very much in your kids life no matter where they go
Basically
Posted on 3/4/23 at 9:00 am to SlowFlowPro
I am under the impression that alcohol, tobacco, and pills are less prevalent now than in our time. And way less prevalent than in the 80s for alcohol, tobacco, and coke.
Weed would be the exception.
Weed would be the exception.
Posted on 3/4/23 at 9:05 am to lsupride87
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Drugs are going to be around and very much in your kids life no matter where they go
Most of the kids who went to private school in Bossier back in the day were those expelled from public school, and they were your average middle class/upper middle class. in fact, some were our better white athletes.
But you're still around better students and less violent humans.
Posted on 3/4/23 at 9:07 am to CeauxPilot
Hammond area you’d be fine in public schools. Obviously location matters but a majority of it all depends on how involved the parents are and how much in the loop they are on what their kids are doing.
Who are they hanging around with? What types of families do their friends come from? What exactly are the schools teaching?
Who are they hanging around with? What types of families do their friends come from? What exactly are the schools teaching?
Posted on 3/4/23 at 9:14 am to CeauxPilot
Part of the reason we moved away from BR was so my son could go to a good public school. Now the money we would have spent on that tuition goes into a college fund.
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