re: Private school, yay or nay?

Some private schools are very, very good.

Some are basically 7 hours a day of elite recess.

I think it comes down to this... for the cost of tuition, is your child getting that much better of an education, versus the public school?

To figure this out means you have to measure the private school, the public school, and the cost of tuition.

In some cases, the public schools are so terrible, that you have no choice but to pay for private.

In some cases, the public schools might be a tick behind private, but it's close, and the tuition dollars instead can be used to supplement via tutoring, and the balance saved for a good college education.

In some cases, the private school education is worse.

I Know you said you weren't taking religious schools, but I've always had this question...

In the term "Catholic Education", which word is more important? Catholic? or Education?

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my two oldest went through Public (Magnet) and had a great acedemic education..... but came out brainwashed liberal


youngest is going private Christian

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How do you think the education will be in that private Christian school compared to the great education in the public school?

I'd rather my kid get a good education taught by liberals, than a bad education taught by conservatives.

I can teach politics and morals at home. I can't teach chemistry or literature at home.

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Move to Texas. Never use the term ‘private school’ again.

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Those with the means still send their kids to private schools in texas.


They’re just WAY more expensive than your typical Louisiana catholic school, so while middle/upper middle can send kids through private in La, only the really rich do so in texas. But they definitely do so.

Is this a South Louisiana/Catholic infatuation? We were going to send our kids to OCS from day 1. The Principal asked where they would go to elementary/middle school. We told them and he told us we would be wasting our money. The public schools they went to were better and scored higher. My kid has never made a B, has a 33 on her ACT, and will graduate with 33 hours of college credit.

Your kids will do well if you actually care about their education/performance whether that’s in a public school or private.

Our neighborhood elementary school has an enrollment of over 1000 for K-5. 6-7 sections of each grade. We decided early on that we weren’t sending our 5 year old to be 1 of 175-200 kids. So they both went private. Younger daughter tested into Magnet middle school, but decided to stay, which was fine with us.

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I went to private school. When I got to college, I couldn’t believe how dumb others were who went to public school... And in public school, even if education is good, your kid is still sitting next to the trailer park or ghetto fabulous little kiddo.

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As a current public school teacher who attended both public and private growing up, the above is pretty close.

If you need to stay public, the best way to mitigate the risks and limit exposure to ignorant trash is to make sure your kids are in honors classes.

If my kids weren't in gifted (and talented art), they'd be in private.

Public school is generally fine for like K-2nd. The psycho liberals can’t brainwash them yet. Then go private.

Junior High it’s almost a necessity to be in private school.

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If you need to stay public, the best way to mitigate the risks and limit exposure to ignorant trash is to make sure your kids are in honors classes.

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Or magnet schools.

All I can speak from is our own experiences, and stuff has definitely changed over time, especially in suburban school districts.

-- I was a lifelong public school kid in Mississippi early, then in Jeff Parish. Honors classes all the way through. All of my extended peer group did well; doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, businesspeople, a colonel and a general, all pretty successful.

-- Wife was similar, went to schools in the metro area, both honors and magnet, then a private HS (non-Catholic) where she was valedictorian. She's a doctor.

-- 10-15 years after we were in high school and had kids, things had changed such that we knew there was NO WAY we would send our kids to public schools in our area. Things had changed immeasurably in terms of student make-up and school performance since then. My younger sister (also public school) and my brother-in-law felt the same way and also sent their kids to private Catholic schools.

-- Daughters both went to LSU; they said college was easy after their Catholic grammar and high school educations, and that in class they easily could tell who were products of 'regular' public schools.

-- Have some of my old friends who sent their kids to MAGNET public schools; they also have done well. To me, in Louisiana metro areas, the magnet schools are equivalent to the old days' honors tracks/classes. I mean, back in my day there were always one or two National Merit Finalists from Jeff Parish public high schools each year, but how many do you see coming out of Bonnabel, Ehret or EJ these days? NONE.

-- Some of our old friends have kids in exurbs (not adjacent suburbs, but the next line out--St. Tammany, St. Charles, and Livingston Parishes) who sent their kids to regular public schools and they all turned out okay-- an eye doctor, professionals, etc.