01-18-2009, 02:29 AM | #1 |
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Public schools are crap.
I'll be honest, I attended a high school which I never wanted to attend. I wanted out, but I couldn't because I didn't live in the district for the school I wanted to attend. So, I attended a school where 90 percent of students who didn't care about studying, teachers who gave up on teaching and a few who didn't know answers to many questions, and administration staff were just rude. A school so bad that they had to install video cameras, and school so bad that they implemented student attendance swipe cards for all of the classes, and friggin' loud fog horn alarms on all of the side door exits. Public schools are a failure. If monkeys had to go to school, it would be cruel for them to attend the school I attended.
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01-18-2009, 02:36 AM | #3 |
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Let's be honest. If you attend a good private school, everyone wants to do well. Teachers, parents of students, and a majority students themselves. For public schools, there are no guarantees. If someone offered me a million dollars so I would have to attend five years of my high school, I would just laugh and say no thanks.
North American public schools in general are a massive failure. I truly believe many North American public schools are no better than schools in Africa. |
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01-18-2009, 02:59 AM | #4 |
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as far as education goes, i will say that in many cases, 'you get what you pay for'. however, there are exceptions. also, if you believe that attending a private school ensures you grow in a safe and controlled environment, youre wrong.
i went to a nationally recognized, blue-ribbon private high school where a good 80% of the students regularly did some kind of drug, drank, smoked cigarettes and/or had unprotected sex before they applied for college. my classmates were well off; the average household income was well over 100k. if anything, the students from my school were more fucked up than kids from public schools. instead of weed, we did coke; instead of drinking beer, we drank vodka. i mean damn, i remember smoking stoges and bowls behind the cafeteria at lunch. kids will be fucked up regardless of where they go to school. |
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01-18-2009, 03:05 AM | #5 |
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I meant good private school meaning a school where it's actually very difficult to get in. There are few schools that I know that you have to be very selective like all A's, you have to be well rounded with talents and community work, etc. I know these schools where 99% of the grads could attend almost any University they like. I just couldn't believe that I waste 5 years at my high school which I accomplished nothing. Okay, my school was strict too like no eating the in the hallways, no swearing, very people at my school smoked and those who smoked weed were expelled already. When it came to academics and school spirit - it just was extremely lacking.
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01-18-2009, 03:12 AM | #6 |
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In Southern California, at least, most public schools are fine. I honestly think if parents do not push their child to learn then the child really ins't going to get much out of any school. From my experience, went through public schools from elementary to high school, if the students want to recieve an education they do. If they don't want to attend school or get anything out of attending they don't, no matter how hard they pushed.
I know kids that went to the most exclusive private schools in socal and are extreme fuck ups now. A couple of them have been meth heads and a couple other do nothing and live off of their parents. There are exceptions to everything, of course. I also was exposed to a lot of different people, cultures and customs going through public schooling which has taught a lot more than I would think it would've. Private schools seem to have this niche of students that attend, most end up having the same lifestyles and coming out of school being the same way. Public schools expose students to a lot of variety, some bad and some good. |
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01-18-2009, 03:22 AM | #8 |
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wow, what a broad generalization....my public school was considered crap because the majority of students average 4.0+GPAs out of a maximum 4.8....it was compared to a public school ranking tier A in houston...avg GPA was 4.5ish /5.0 max...
Sorry about your school man, but don't generalize so vaguely... |
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I graduated high school in 5 years because in Canada high school is from grade 8 to grade 12. It's not just the students' determination but the school environment. I had teachers who didn't know how to teach, teachers who didn't even know the course, one teacher who showed up late half an hour every class, plenty of students who thought getting bad grades was cool. Finally, the students who wanted to do well kept asking me for all my homework and all the answers. It just drove me bonkers.
I am not saying ALL public schools are horrible. All my cousins attended public schools and they got accepted to good Universities. However, they got to choose the school. I didn't have a choice. They live in another different city. Different city, different school standards. Lastly, when it comes to academic standards in my area, the high end private schools scored perfect scores when it came to testing of academics of the students. All students public and private schools get tested by an independent international research and educational organization and the high end private schools always get the highest marks. |
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I've been bitching about this topic since 1994 online and in person. No one seemed to listen back then. I'm just afraid that people would look at me differently because I never graduated college. I have a coworker who is the same age as me and he graduated college and he got promoted to manager and he's been working for less than 2 years at my workplace. Shockingly to me is that before he got promoted to manager he made less money than what I'm making now. I'm with the same company for almost 10 years and I didn't go up the corporate ladder too much. He's making almost twice what I'm making now.
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Well, look on the bright side. Nobody cares where you went to school.
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