<p>Okay if you had a chance to attend a public or private school which one would you attend?and why </p>
<p>I'm just curious because people be down grading public schools like they are horrible and on the other hand people be making it seem like private schools are all that. From my perspective and what I experience in private school is that those kids are 100x's worst then public school students.</p>
<p>depends on what type of private school it BE. Lol</p>
<p>my high school experience has not been pleasant or challenging, so yeah I’d transfer to a private school in a heartbeat given the chance. But that’s just because my public school is awful. There’s a public school about an hour away that’s actually better than most of the private schools I’ve seen and I’d go there just as soon as well.</p>
<p>I can’t make a decision based solely on public vs. private. I go to a very competitive public high school that sent like 9 out of 190 kids to Ivys last year, which is better than many private schools. That said, there are obviously better private schools out there too.</p>
<p>Public schools are horrible.
Poor academics, poor athletics, and poor facilities.
Unless you live in Greenwich, CT or in a town in California with phenomenal schools, then private all the way.</p>
<p>It depends on the private school…I actually think some public schools are better. It all depends on the location and the school itself…</p>
<p>This is not a fair comparison because you would have to factor in the cost…</p>
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<p>I live damn close to Greenwich, lol, so my public school is similar.</p>
<p>Private schools are smaller and give a student more attention .</p>
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and even with good schools, a significant percent of Greenwich kids go to private schools.</p>
<p>I go to a big public school with 600-700 kids per grade…and if I had applied to the private school near me, I would have gone. It’s so hard to come from a public school where everyone discourages you from pushing yourself and the science club is 20 members, to end up at an Ivy, create a nationally acclaimed olympiad team, win competitions or even just have one or two of the advantages of a private school. Just came from a bitter team loss at the Science Olympiad, so I am more negative than I would be (lost to said private school and various others, only 7 of 15 of my team members bothered to show up, I don’t even want to know the amount of those that bothered to study more than 3 minutes…) Those that are the top of the top and usually make up that national team for science and math competitions go to the private school near me…with their 4 private labs each equiped with their own supervisor to help develop winning science fair projects. And private coach. In public its easier to become the star student, but how can you compete with the private school kids? I can complain much, becoming the president of the science club as a Junior is a fantastic achievement and award I wouldn’t have gotten at the local private school, but the past 12 years of science club presidents and vice presidents have all applied to MIT, all with matching letters of rejection. And not because they didn’t work hard enough or weren’t smart enough…</p>
<p>@julieannab my public school won’t allow us to <i>start</i> a Science Olympiad team. “too much paperwork”=total bs</p>
<p>It depends what public school you are comparing to what private school. Like I go to a decent public school and there’s a lot of private schools in the area. Talking to other kids in the area, you truly don’t get a better education. Private schools have resorted to doing away with APs while mine offers over twenty some. The students aren’t even better nor are the athletics (if they exist). The facilities aren’t any better and you’re paying lots of $$ for that. The only and probably main advantage of going to a private school is that it’s significantly easier to get into top schools where their counselors are in contact with admissions offices at top universities (no wonder why ~50% of ivy league students are private schoolers even though they are the small minority of high school students).</p>
<p>My public school has about 2000 students and is a reputable one in the area, both for academics and sports, probably better than a lot of the private schools, if there’s any way to fairly compare them. So I’d say that it really depends where you go - some private schools are beyond amazing, while some public schools are incredible as well.</p>
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<p>The way I see it, rich parents send their kids to private schools. Rich parents are likely smart, smart parents have smart kids, smart kids get into good colleges. I think that’s part of the “success” of private schools - their students are smart to begin with, so when private schools do well on standardized tests and college admissions it looks like the school itself is giving the kids a great education.</p>
<p>I’d go to a private school, but only because I’m a pretentious *******.</p>
<p>And I really agree with what dfree124 said</p>
<p>@slylingual24 we are one and the same…</p>
<p>Hahaha we da best haha</p>
<p>If money wasn’t involved, I’d definitely attend a private school.
Some of the students in these publics schools are just … horrible.</p>