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The people are nicer and not stuck up. Everyone makes fun of the rich and preppy kids.
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<p>Um, how can you call the people nice if they make fun of the rich and preppy kids?</p>
<p>Im just talking about two specific private/prep school. The rest of the private schools are cool kids, like public school ones. Its just these two private schools have people who think they are better, and that their school is the best. Its the mentality that is drilled into them.</p>
<p>People can be nice and make fun of people at the same time. If you tell a lie to someone on their deathbed, are you being cruel for lying to them, while at the same time making them feel better?</p>
<p>mattd-</p>
<p>good points made. :)</p>
<p>What is so wrong with rich and preppy kids anyway?</p>
<p>Public schools give you something no private school could ever get you:</p>
<p>"street smarts" for lack of a better term. You'll have to learn to deal with some of the most god awful people in the world in a public high school, and the reality is you will be dealing with these people in the real world. </p>
<p>As far as the education goes, maybe I just go to a great public high school, but I've never once had a teacher that didn't teach the material correctly, or was an *******. While my school does offer a lot of APs, it aint the end of the world if you can't take 10 of em in a year.</p>
<p>So should people with truly horrible school systems be subjected to unsafe and underperforming schools, just so they can experience the real world?</p>
<p>Personally, I love my private school - I love the feeling of knowing pretty much the whole staff (admin, teachers, maintenance, food service). I've grown tired of the single-sex bit to my school and the dress code (shirt and tie, blazers in the winter) - but I can deal with that for a few more months.</p>
<p>The thing about public schools is that since they have more people, there's a greater variety of activities and courses that small private schools don't have. They're also more diverse. It doesn't bother me at all, but often I notice that I'm the only non-white kid in a class or something - I laugh about it with my friends and use it to throw in a good joke now and then, but the point is at the public schools in my area, that would never happen.</p>
<p>I believe that for the public/private debate, it's all about what environment you prefer and if your parents can afford it. Luckily, my school is very generous with financial aid - I think like a third of the school receives some grant money, so I was able to go to the school I wanted to without much strain.</p>