S/O Kids and private vs. public school

[downtoearth]

So now, did/do/will your kids go mostly public or mostly private if all goes well? Is it based on what you did as a kid or on the schools changing/getting worse or better?

Answers are the same as the other poll...

All public (K-12)

Mostly public (K-12)

All private (K-12)

Mostly private (K-12)

Homeschool (mostly or all)

Who knows?! or I have wicked smart dogs - SS

[tacosforlife]

Dogs? Seriously, dogs?!

meshaliuknits, back me up on this one.

[laurenpetro]

if my kids are having an issue in public school and want to go to private school i'll try to make it happen. otherwise, it's public all the way.

[NitaX]

Public. I'm not paying a damn dime to a private school in Memphis.

[rugbywife]

all public, all the way is the plan. I can't think of many scenarios where we would do anything else. Private here starts at no less than 20k a year. lol. Not happening.

[josieposy]

Ours will go to public. We have only heard good things about our district, so we will stick with that until we see otherwise.

[penguingrrl]

I've always said all public, all the way. Except that now we're in the best public district near Hs job and I'm very unimpressed with it. For the first time ever I'm considering private options if we stay here. When we first moved here I didn't understand why so many people homeschool and now I honestly get it. Our school is basically all test prep all the time and has great test scores to show for it, so it looks good on paper, but it's otherwise pretty lousy.

[2curlydogs]

Private. Our public school district already sucks donkey balls. And by the time Walker is done fucking the state over it will be one of the worst in the US, I'm sure.

[pitta12]

Public, because our schools are really good. It would depend on the school system for me and my answer would probably be different if I lived in the town where I grew up.

[darnkatz]

Public. I'm not impressed with the school district we are in, but we plan on moving to a better one after our lease is up here. We can't afford private and wouldn't choose to send our kids to private schools if we could.

[meshaliuknits]

Jan 26, 2015 12:58:34 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Dogs? Seriously, dogs?!

meshaliuknits, back me up on this one.

TOTALLY on the list.

[LoveTrains]

If I had children, they would attend a private school in my current city.

[Velar Fricative]

Definitely public from K-8. Leaning towards public for HS but it will all depend on admissions. There are not enough public high schools in this borough that grew exponentially in the last few decades and given that I went to a small public HS, I get apprehensive at the thought of DD and future kid attending any one of our high schools that all tend to make the list of biggest high schools in the country in terms of student population. So while I would support them having public educations K-12, HS might be different so we're taking a "we'll see" approach.

[meshaliuknits]

I don't foresee the Liu children going anywhere but public UNLESS we get redistricted for the other nearby HS. We are in a decent district, IMO. Not great, perhaps, but decent.

[frlcb]

My son is in private and my daughter will join next year. I have too many issues with public education but on top of that our schools are just eh

[thejackpot]

My son is in private now but I would prefer public in general.

[wawa]

I've never even really considered anything but public all the way.

[stealthmom]

Public bc money but if we could afford it private for sure.

[pinkdutchtulips]

I picked where I live based on the strength of public schools ...

[downtoearth]

Jan 26, 2015 13:04:36 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Jan 26, 2015 12:58:34 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Dogs? Seriously, dogs?!

meshaliuknits, back me up on this one.

TOTALLY on the list.

Cats are too cool for school - we all know that nobody would be able to wake a cat at 6am and get them on a bus without some retaliation, right?

[sugarbear]

I would prefer public, but our public middle schools are awful. And our public elementary starts at 9:30am and I can't wrap my head around making that work for our family.
I work at a private PK-8th grade school. The kids will go here until 6th.
DH works at a private 6-12, though he's not a teacher (he works in IT). The kids will go there-- assuming they get in-- from 6 to 8.

I would like for them to go to the public high schools, but if they love DH's school, and we get enough financial aid, they can stay there.

[meshaliuknits]

Jan 26, 2015 13:20:01 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

Jan 26, 2015 13:04:36 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

TOTALLY on the list.

Cats are too cool for school - we all know that nobody would be able to wake a cat at 6am and get them on a bus without some retaliation, right?

I applaud the effort, but you're still on the list.

[Vespasia]

If we were having children we would have to do private or move out of the city. MH is a product of public city education (a million years ago, of course) and he has nothing positive to say about it. Most of the private schools around here are Catholic and that wouldn't fly with me. There are some magnet/charter options too but I'm not terribly familiar with them.

[eclaires]

Right now, and for the foreseeable future, public. So far, I've been happy with the public options, but I wouldn't rule out private. I went to all private Catholic schools and there are pros/cons. Right now, I think my kids are better served in the public schools, but if I felt like private would be better we'd consider local Catholic options and a local private school that is not religiously affiliated.

[CrazyLucky]

I'd certainly prefer public. Where we are now is a good school district, no need to send them to private. If we move to a place that doesn't have good schools, we will have to suck up the costs of private, I think.

[mcfelix]

This is a topic of discussion in our house. DH is set that our kids will attend private school, even though we live in a very good school district. I would be perfectly comfortable with our public schools, but DH feels very strongly about private and has said he will kill himself working to ensure we have the money to send them there. He went to mediocre public schools and feels like private school (the one in particular we will likely send out kids to) will prepare them better to be a mature adult. I worry about our kids being sheltered and not being around kids from diverse backgrounds.

[Cicero]

Likely private, but as I don't really know where we will be living and when I can't say that with 100% certainty.

[ringstrue]

All public all the way.

[kittycatlove]

We haven't decided yet. If we do private it will only be for K-8 and the public high school.

[flgirl]

We are planning on homeschooling all the way through. We will utilize some online schooling options as each child reaches 6th grade.

I am a former private school teacher. I saw the good, the bad, and the ugly of private and public schools. I can do as a good of a job if not better. We are secular so there is not a religious component to it.