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Private Schools - Pros & Cons
Rearing and educating children is an enormous and extensive responsibility. A responsibility, I contend, that belongs entirely to the parents. The three primary options for educating one's children, public school, private school, and home school, are each fraught with difficulties. Each of the three have some advantages, but each has major disadvantages. Finding the solution for one's children that works and is doable is no easy task.
Private School Cons:
- Private schools cost an enormous amount of money. Only well to do people can afford to send their children to a private school.
- Private schools range in cost from about $4,000 per child per year up to $12,000 per child per year. Remember that you get what you pay for. A decent private school education will cost you about $8,000 per child per year.
- Private schools, for the most part, are modeled after the modern schooling paradigm and offer little real difference on essentials from the public school.
- Most private schools are factory-assembly line, warehouse type institutions where students learn more from their peers than their teachers.
- Most private schools regurgitate the value-less into-the-trash-can work of so much of modern education.
- Private school students learn to hate learning almost as much as public school students.
- Most private schools will not educate below-average or special needs children. They operate much more in an "exclusive" environment than they admit.
Private School Pros:
- Private schools operate on a free-market contractual relationship with parents. The foundation of violence upon which the public school operates is not there.
- You drop the kids off and the private school does the work.
- Mothers can work at a career (to provide the money to pay for the private school.)
- Trained and professional teachers give a "quality" education to your children.
- Curriculum and methods are all determined by someone else, you don't have to worry.
- Private schools can place a veneer upon modern education suitable to the values of the parents - Christian, or Visual and Performing Arts, etc.
- Private schools usually provide extra-curricular sports, state competitions, and other large activies.
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