If money was no object, would you rather send your children to public/private school?

[West_Midlander]

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[Sirius_]

Public unless its like really bad. I think that it's good for children to interact with people from all walks of life while growing up. If we're assuming that I'm rich in this situation it would probably help keep them humble too.

[Continential]

Depends on location/schools.

[T'Chenka]

Public unless its like really bad. I think that it's good for children to interact with people from all walks of life while growing up. If we're assuming that I'm rich in this situation it would probably help keep them humble too.

This.

[Fight for Trump]

Public unless its like really bad. I think that it's good for children to interact with people from all walks of life while growing up. If we're assuming that I'm rich in this situation it would probably help keep them humble too.

With the level of racial/economic segregation in most of the US, public schools often don't give kids as much exposure to kids from different backgrounds as they perhaps ought to.

That said, I would prefer to send kids to a Christian school, even if I mock Christianity as idol worship. Christian values are better than no values at all.

[Catholics vs. Convicts]

Facing this decision in the near future. The Chicago suburbs has some fantastic public school systems, and I was a product of one of those public school districts through 8th grade. I thought it was fantastic, as well as my experience at a private high school. All things being equal I think I'd do the exact same set up for my kids if I had a complete choice.

Where I currently live though, the school district is very bad. If we stay here for the long run, there is not much choice but to send our kids to private schools, which our local Catholic grade school option seems to be as good as any parochial school. If we do move to a bigger house in the coming years, we will consider at least a temporary switch back to public schools, especially if it looks like our kids can take advantage of advanced curriculums.

[John Dule]

Public. Private schools are disgusting places for disgusting people.

[Orwell]

Private. Poor people shouldn’t be near me, nor my children. They leech off welfare, and wealthier people who pay taxes. I’m a Boarding school alumnus

[Suburbia]

Private, I want my children to have a good education. Public schools is good too, but it can be problematic.

[T'Chenka]

Poor people shouldn’t be near me, nor my children.

Wow.

[John Dule]

Poor people shouldn’t be near me, nor my children.

Wow.

You're a good poster, but you need to develop an eye for satire.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

A private Christian school.  And not a nominally Christian prep school, but a school that views its primary purpose as partnering with the parents to raise up Christian young men and women.  A litmus test I would use to distinguish the two is "do they teach evolution over billions of years as fact".

[John Dule]

A private Christian school.  And not a nominally Christian prep school, but a school that views its primary purpose as partnering with the parents to raise up Christian young men and women.  A litmus test I would use to distinguish the two is "do they teach evolution over billions of years as fact".

If you had genuine faith that your views are correct, you would not feel any need to conceal opposing viewpoints from your children. Insularity: Another criteria for cults that Christianity meets.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

A private Christian school.  And not a nominally Christian prep school, but a school that views its primary purpose as partnering with the parents to raise up Christian young men and women.  A litmus test I would use to distinguish the two is "do they teach evolution over billions of years as fact".

If you had genuine faith that your views are correct, you would not feel any need to conceal opposing viewpoints from your children. Insularity: Another criteria for cults that Christianity meets.

At a certain point, I agree with you that it's imperative to step out of a bubble.  But, I also think it's important to nurture faith of children (and adults who are young in their faith) before sending them out into the secular world.  It's important to have mature faith when around non-believers.

[John Dule]

A private Christian school.  And not a nominally Christian prep school, but a school that views its primary purpose as partnering with the parents to raise up Christian young men and women.  A litmus test I would use to distinguish the two is "do they teach evolution over billions of years as fact".

If you had genuine faith that your views are correct, you would not feel any need to conceal opposing viewpoints from your children. Insularity: Another criteria for cults that Christianity meets.

At a certain point, I agree with you that it's imperative to step out of a bubble.  But, I also think it's important to nurture faith of children (and adults who are young in their faith) before sending them out into the secular world.  It's important to have mature faith when around non-believers.

Interesting perspective, given that I have no similar fear for my future kids and I intend to make sure they are exposed to Christian teachings from a young age.

[Del Tachi]

Depends on location/schools.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Depends on location/schools.

[HB]

I guess my thing is, if money wasn’t an object, then the whole public vs private thing wouldn’t be something I’d be factoring anymore outside of the “superficial” characteristics. Abundant resources, quality teachers and mentors, plentiful opportunities to different concepts and backgrounds, supportive community, etc etc would mean more to me than public vs private since money is a part of the divide between them. I guess, ultimately I’d want a reputable, well funded public school, but without the monetary barrier to private schools, I think they’d also run the chance to be equally as diverse in teaching styles and student backgrounds

[satsuma]

I guess my thing is, if money wasn’t an object, then the whole public vs private thing wouldn’t be something I’d be factoring anymore outside of the “superficial” characteristics. Abundant resources, quality teachers and mentors, plentiful opportunities to different concepts and backgrounds, supportive community, etc etc would mean more to me than public vs private since money is a part of the divide between them. I guess, ultimately I’d want a reputable, well funded public school, but without the monetary barrier to private schools, I think they’d also run the chance to be equally as diverse in teaching styles and student backgrounds

Homeschool but hire tutors who are practically experts in their subjects to go way above "grade level." If money is no object, then why not educate your kids like princes?

[Sirius_]

I guess my thing is, if money wasn’t an object, then the whole public vs private thing wouldn’t be something I’d be factoring anymore outside of the “superficial” characteristics. Abundant resources, quality teachers and mentors, plentiful opportunities to different concepts and backgrounds, supportive community, etc etc would mean more to me than public vs private since money is a part of the divide between them. I guess, ultimately I’d want a reputable, well funded public school, but without the monetary barrier to private schools, I think they’d also run the chance to be equally as diverse in teaching styles and student backgrounds

Homeschool but hire tutors who are practically experts in their subjects to go way above "grade level." If money is no object, then why not educate your kids like princes?

Lack of social interaction

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Private. Have you seen what the public schools are teaching children these days?

But it would have to have strong foreign language and technology offerings.

[Lechasseur]

Private