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You mean stuff like languages, literature, music, art, technology, and science? Uh-oh, can't allow that left-wing stuff in, can you? You might even call including it having "an agenda", right??
I went to twelve years of public school following half a year of private kindergarten. Went to a public university for my undergrad degree, then to a private college for my master's degree.
It was all good. Much depends on teachers and parents and access to educational materials. Some of my teachers were better than others, particularly at the junior high and high school level, but that's par for the course.
All private schools are not identical, any more that all public schools being the same. It behooves parents to look carefully at all options and to consider their children's best interests when deciding on how and where their children should be educated. Parents should also be prepared to fill in the gaps when need be.
My son played travel hockey in the southeast. A number of the families were quite wealthy and chose private school even in decent school districts. Not all the kids 'thrived' in their school environment. It was less about public/private and more about the kids themselves and their inclination to be disciplined, work hard, etc. Interestingly enough those traits carried through on the ice and what kind of hockey players they were at practice and at game time.
Now, apparently our children have become too fragile to not be #1 at everything. So in interests of dumbing down the schools even further to make the lowest denominator feel better about themselves there will no longer be Valedictorians.
We certainly would not want them to learn terrible lessons like students who work harder than you might possibly be recognized for it over YOU. So we have to protect the feelings of these little snowflakes so they can become good liberals someday and protest things they cannot even understand because they are flat out stupid and ignorant.
Again, Catholic school for my 5 kids was the best investment I ever made.
Decisions like valedictorian, are determined at the local level by local people elected by local people. Got a problem with that? Run for a school board seat.
In my neck of the woods, 4 years at a Catholic high school runs $50,000. A portion of the tuition funds scholarships for a limited number of qualifying students. Most people cannot afford this especially if they have multiple kids.
I went to a private school for my K-8 education and learned that the earth was created about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. Not exactly the best preparation for surviving in a competitive high tech society.
The Catholic school I attended grades 1-7, did not have science or gym teachers, thus no class. History was limited to church history.
We did however attend Mass 7 days a week, plus every funeral. December was always brutal with morning mass followed by 2-3 funeral masses.
We traded " holy cards" the way kids trade baseball cards. Used to sneak books in under our clothes to have something to do.
I went to a public school, and in many classes, after every test, scores were publicly posted by name, top scorer to lowest.
I remember one teacher who didn't do that, but would instead ask the three top scorers to stand in front of the class, and then also asked the 3 lowest scorers to come up to the front of the class, but then made them sit on the ground around the top scorers' feet.
And yes, I'm a millennial. Crazy how things have changed.
I sent both my children to private school because overall the public school system is doing lousily. Public High School graduates score below average in SAT and ACT statewide.
Private school seems expensive but actually it is not.
Because when they applied for college, preferential treatment was usually given to the applicants from private school -- in admission and in financial aid.
I went to a public school, and in many classes, after every test, scores were publicly posted by name, top scorer to lowest.
I remember one teacher who didn't do that, but would instead ask the three top scorers to stand in front of the class, and then also asked the 3 lowest scorers to come up to the front of the class, but then made them sit on the ground around the top scorers' feet.
And yes, I'm a millennial. Crazy how things have changed.
That's a good way to get the top students bullied. Not a great idea.
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