Why do some people look down on others because they favour private education instead of public education?
I attend private school because I have clinical depression and anxiety, and the public high schools around here are too large for me to cope with. My school is smaller, but still big enough that it offers everything I need from a high school. The environment is totally different. I know most people in my class, and have many of the same teachers multiple times. It’s much easier on me. My parents don’t send me to a private school because they think they’re better than anyone else for being able to afford it, they send me to private school because it’s what’s best for me. Anyone who looks down on them for it is just plain wrong.
Because private education doesn’t fit their ideal of a utopian society where everyone has the same things and nobody strives to improve. Most parents who have made the choice to send their kids to private school recognize the facts – public schools are just day care centers, most public school teachers are not as qualified as they could be and aren’t able to deal with the class sizes and discipline problems. On average, we pay about 50% of our property taxes to public school systems. This figure/percentage rises each year. School quality declines, nationally, each year. We should abolish public school and just have each parent pay to send their kid to school. That is one way of controlling these lower income people who have 8 children they cannot support. Or another thought – you can send a kid to school for free for each tax payer in your household. Two working parents = two kids to school for free. You can have a third kid, but you pay for that childs education.
