got kids? sending them to a public or private school?

[RustyCage]

With public schools a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that the schools in affluent suburbs are better than low socio economic areas. While that may be a rough guide to go by, some of the best schools that I work in have been in cat 2 or 3 schools, just due to the amount of funding and resources thrown at those schools. Sometimes the kids in the lower category schools are worse behaved, some of the worst cases of bullying and other harassment I've seen have been in the richer suburbs. Every area has good schools and bad schools, no matter if they are public or private. You can't go by reputation or people's past experiences, you need to go there and ask questions and look for yourself.

[Gozu]

I went to public school all the way thought R-12. I graduated with my SACE certificate in 2005.

I hear stories about other peoples experiences through high school that I never encountered. Violence and drugs were never a part of my school life. Sure there were people that would smoke dope and stuff, but there wasnt many of them. I guess I had a pretty good class, because almost all of the people in our year got along and hung out. Literally the whole grade would be together in the breaks. Our school had a pretty bad rep before I started, but I think a change in personel and identity really helped dispell all of the negativity. (the school merged with a few primary schools to form an R-12). The people that werent interested in school mostly left around the end of year 10/start of year 11. That took care of most of the distractions of the people that wanted to do well.

I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to do when I finished school, so passing SACE was really my only goal, which I accomplished. I had teachers that were really actually amazing. My year 11 and 12 biology teacher had a class that took a while to get their heads around the DNA part of the curriculum, and when he identified a problem in our learning, he sat us down as a group and went through it again and again until we got it. Almost the whole class was destined for failure half way through the year and most, if not all, passed the final exam.

People from my class are now 24-25 and are teachers themselves, work in government positions, own there own homes, etc.

In my experience, school is what the student makes it.

Taperoo?

[HH3]

I went to public school all the way thought R-12. I graduated with my SACE certificate in 2005.

I hear stories about other peoples experiences through high school that I never encountered. Violence and drugs were never a part of my school life. Sure there were people that would smoke dope and stuff, but there wasnt many of them. I guess I had a pretty good class, because almost all of the people in our year got along and hung out. Literally the whole grade would be together in the breaks. Our school had a pretty bad rep before I started, but I think a change in personel and identity really helped dispell all of the negativity. (the school merged with a few primary schools to form an R-12). The people that werent interested in school mostly left around the end of year 10/start of year 11. That took care of most of the distractions of the people that wanted to do well.

I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to do when I finished school, so passing SACE was really my only goal, which I accomplished. I had teachers that were really actually amazing. My year 11 and 12 biology teacher had a class that took a while to get their heads around the DNA part of the curriculum, and when he identified a problem in our learning, he sat us down as a group and went through it again and again until we got it. Almost the whole class was destined for failure half way through the year and most, if not all, passed the final exam.

People from my class are now 24-25 and are teachers themselves, work in government positions, own there own homes, etc.

In my experience, school is what the student makes it.

Taperoo?

Yeah, it changed to Ocean View College. I was in the first class that went through 8-12 with it being Ocean View

[Il Duce]

As someone who was in both systems i would rather be poor sending my kids to private schools than ever send them to public schools. Personaly i think public schools just teach the subject and don't care if a
ny student is taking in what's being taught. Where as private schools teach the student and make sure they understand what is being taught. Also i feel public schools are behind when i went from a private school to public i found stuff i learnt in year 9/10 being taught to year 12's. i mean me personally but i wouldn't send my kids to public schools no matter what.

[Psyber]

I am a person who was publicly educated at Brompton Primary, Croydon Primary, and Woodville High, along with some peers who also got a good education there.
So, I started out life with a strong prejudice in favour of the public system.
However time has forced me to revise that prejudice.

I never did have kids - partly because of a 9 year gap between my two marriages - and so it is a largely academic subject for me.
However, I have formed some impressions based on the histories of people who came through my doors as patients, and from the families of friends.
I have no doubt that if I had kids, now, they would go to a carefully selected private school at least for their secondary education.
(My change of view emerged gradually during the 1980s.)