Are you going to send your kids to private school?

[mapleleaf4ever]

I'll be sending my kid(s) to Boarding School in Zürich. I'll go visit for Holidays. lol :D

[Hot Karl]

hmmm, i figure that'd be a decision i'd need to make with my significant other.

but my lil sisters went to a private school, and one's in ubc now...the other's in gr.6

i look at some of the stuff my littliest sister is doing and it's like, wow that's a bit much don't ya think? in the same respect her grade just had a pacific rim project fair that was at like 7 on a wednesday, and lemme tell you MY gr.6 class sure as hell didn't do anything as cool. THEY HAD FOODS FROM VARIOUS PAC RIM COUNTIRES. how cool is that? :msPiggy:

sidenote: gr.6 at West Point Gray Academy 9k. my sis in gr.11/12 a few years ago was 10k.

crofton, st.george, yorkhouse i would reckon is easily 15-20k.

over 13 yrs at 10-20k adds up, hell it's almost a house. gettin a private tutor would probably be much more financially viable.

[MissBehavior]

Originally posted by decypher
Kids who get all sheltered into a private school all of there teen's, as soon as they shipped off to college they explode into the world of sex, drugs and alcohol. I would find it better for my kids to grow up sooner then later in a public school, learn to be responsible etc etc.

This is just retarded.

Just because one goes to a private school does not mean one will be a "bubble child", just as one who goes to a public school will not necessarily know about "the real world" because of it.

How you "turn out" has more to do with your parents than with which type of school you go to. I went to a public school, and I didn't touch drugs or alcohol almost until I graduated.

[cinist]

if my parents had listened to my grandparents i would have been in a boarding school in new brunswick where the rest of my family for years and years went.

i'm glad that i didnt. went to a private/catholic school, they were mean and kicked me out

we sent my neice, whom my parents and i are raising, to Meadow Ridge , one of the best private schools in the lower mainland and they kicked her out! and she was only in jr. k, she was only 4! bastards!!

private school dont sympathise for shit, they suck

i dont think i would send my kids to one, maybe but its unlikely. they'd be better off in a school zone where the taxes are high enough to have a decent school.

but id never have kids, so this was fun

[Erica]

Originally posted by k-pryde


Erica i totally understand where you're coming from and I believe your brother went to the same school as i did and graduated as a prefect? a high prefect to add to that?

I have experienced both co-ed and all boy enviornments and i must say both systems have their flaws, psychological tormenting, and drama, but the fact that you have those connections and the fact you successfully graduated from the school is a whole new story which will tag along with you for the rest of your life. i understand you left the school early, but i'm closely aquainted with many people from that school who still remember and respect you (and your family).

i feel a sense of anger towards the whole system you've probably been forced into like myself. I hated it. People from my school remember me an underachiever. but i got by anyways with honours and took all the critique and shit for all the spoilt rich kids. As long as i can go back to the reunion proud that i did my best in making the best of my life i'm happy. fuck the drama of high school we all had to go through it.

yuppp. gilbert was my bro...he was prefect of special events, or something like that. :)

i REALLY hated crofton. a lot of girls are really bitchy, judgemental, catty, ruthless, gossip/drama queens, ETC!!, and when you jam a bunch of them together with no males to balance things out, it can get pretty ugly. i just couldn't stand it so i left. i definitely agree with the fact that there are ups and downs to both public and private though. i think either co-ed private school or the mini school are the options that i'm going to decide over for my kids. i had a pretty good experience at the mini school cause they definitely stress balance a lot more.

[ebbomega]

Originally posted by k-pryde


you're a fuckin moron

Why exactly am I a moron? Because I made a joke you didn't get? Sorry. I should have followed it up with a-wakka-wakka.

and yes i went to a private school

You must have been the type of person I went to school with and vowed never to let my children grow up to become.

Let me fill you kids in on my high school boarding private school experience. And for those wondering about coed schools, listen up.

Brentwood was a brooding palace for Speed Freaks. There was the Mike Hermsen Pharmacy for anybody that wanted to shove some anti-ADD medication up their noses, and plenty of other sources of a copious amount of speed.

When a kid got pregnant, she got "asked to leave" (read: expelled. Nobody gets expelled or fired at Brentwood. For such a political school, they make the biggest effort to make things look like they're not).

Furthermore, Alexandra House (one of the girls' houses) had bathrooms that were filled after EVERY meal. If you think women are vicious to each other and themselves in girls-only schools, just imagine when they've got to look good for the boys as well.

People didn't get rewarded for being skilled at much. They got rewarded for being poster boys and girls. The entire purpose of just about every single code of conduct of the school was forming these kids to be walking talking Brentwood Sales Machines. My elective was Bending Over And Taking It From The Man 11.

That's not to say the teaching wasn't superb and the opportunities presented to me weren't great ones. I got to Rock Climb for PE. I got to drive a Mark V Zodiac. I got to do Tai Chi during one of my Fine Arts periods. Not to mention I pulled of nearly straight A's in the eyes of the BC Government even though my working grades were around a 79% (because they make you work your ass off for that 79%). It made it so that first year University was a breeze... I got As whilst showing up to about 7 classes per semester. (Needless to say, that trend didn't carry on too much...)

I would have had absolutely nothing to do with any of that positive stuff though if my parents had made me. And most of the kids who were there because of their parents were bitter, resentful, and the worst of the politicians that governed the school on a strictly implicit level. It's practically a movie stereotype with the amount of politics and scheming and number of people that are outright there to try and make you look bad. And what's worse about it is that you're limited to 400 people across 5 grades and it takes up 6 days of the week. From 8 am until 6pm, you are their bitch. Good luck finding a social life outside of it.

I chose to go to Brentwood, and as such I made do with it because I had nobody to blame for going there save myself. And I was there for the programs which I took full advantage of, save a couple I would have liked to work on in hindsight.

If my kid asks me to send them to private school, I'd be happy to send them. But no way in hell I'm going to send them without them asking me to.

[cyberdog]

I went to a private school (religeous in nature - Jewish)...after which I did one year of public CEGEP (a Quebec thing, kinda like grades 12/13 from what I understand of HS here). Even though I had issues with parts of my HS education at the time, after seeing the results of the public school system (especially in a public speaking class I took, where I got an idea of what other people's level of "formal" english skills were) I decided that barring revolutionary change in the public system it would be a private HS for my kids.

Even though I never really felt "challenged" in HS, I did develop a healthy work ethic - none of this not failing kids so they don't feel bad crap, etc. As well, I think that, on average, the environment is better than that of a public school system even outside the school itself.

[Moon]

Originally posted by ebbomega


Why exactly am I a moron? Because I made a joke you didn't get? Sorry. I should have followed it up with a-wakka-wakka.


You must have been the type of person I went to school with and vowed never to let my children grow up to become.

Let me fill you kids in on my high school boarding private school experience. And for those wondering about coed schools, listen up.

Brentwood was a brooding palace for Speed Freaks. There was the Mike Hermsen Pharmacy for anybody that wanted to shove some anti-ADD medication up their noses, and plenty of other sources of a copious amount of speed.

When a kid got pregnant, she got "asked to leave" (read: expelled. Nobody gets expelled or fired at Brentwood. For such a political school, they make the biggest effort to make things look like they're not).

Furthermore, Alexandra House (one of the girls' houses) had bathrooms that were filled after EVERY meal. If you think women are vicious to each other and themselves in girls-only schools, just imagine when they've got to look good for the boys as well.

People didn't get rewarded for being skilled at much. They got rewarded for being poster boys and girls. The entire purpose of just about every single code of conduct of the school was forming these kids to be walking talking Brentwood Sales Machines. My elective was Bending Over And Taking It From The Man 11.

That's not to say the teaching wasn't superb and the opportunities presented to me weren't great ones. I got to Rock Climb for PE. I got to drive a Mark V Zodiac. I got to do Tai Chi during one of my Fine Arts periods. Not to mention I pulled of nearly straight A's in the eyes of the BC Government even though my working grades were around a 79% (because they make you work your ass off for that 79%). It made it so that first year University was a breeze... I got As whilst showing up to about 7 classes per semester. (Needless to say, that trend didn't carry on too much...)

I would have had absolutely nothing to do with any of that positive stuff though if my parents had made me. And most of the kids who were there because of their parents were bitter, resentful, and the worst of the politicians that governed the school on a strictly implicit level. It's practically a movie stereotype with the amount of politics and scheming and number of people that are outright there to try and make you look bad. And what's worse about it is that you're limited to 400 people across 5 grades and it takes up 6 days of the week. From 8 am until 6pm, you are their bitch. Good luck finding a social life outside of it.

I chose to go to Brentwood, and as such I made do with it because I had nobody to blame for going there save myself. And I was there for the programs which I took full advantage of, save a couple I would have liked to work on in hindsight.

If my kid asks me to send them to private school, I'd be happy to send them. But no way in hell I'm going to send them without them asking me to.

i don't know why but i just can't be fucked to read it

and good for you. we're totally different people and thats that. i don't ever hope to meet you

[Moon]

Originally posted by Erica


yuppp. gilbert was my bro...he was prefect of special events, or something like that. :)

i REALLY hated crofton. a lot of girls are really bitchy, judgemental, catty, ruthless, gossip/drama queens, ETC!!, and when you jam a bunch of them together with no males to balance things out, it can get pretty ugly. i just couldn't stand it so i left. i definitely agree with the fact that there are ups and downs to both public and private though. i think either co-ed private school or the mini school are the options that i'm going to decide over for my kids. i had a pretty good experience at the mini school cause they definitely stress balance a lot more.

me n cord were walkin the dogs today and you came up in our conversation.... you should come hang out with us sometime =)

[cinist]

Originally posted by k-pryde


i don't know why but i just can't be fucked to read it

and good for you. we're totally different people and thats that. i don't ever hope to meet you

you should have it was interesting





I almost went too Brentwood to get out of going to nb, then i was going to go too shawnigan lake, or something like that?

[SEAN!]

yeah cuz im gonan be a rich elitest dickhead.


so basically ill be the same only rich

[SEAN!]

Originally posted by MsAttitude
Public school is awful. Just watching all the stuff thats going on the news larely... I don't think I want my kids to go to school. I would rather homeschool. I wish I was homeschooled!

Only thing with homescholling is if your going to do that, your child should be enrolled in tons of out of the home activities.

oh come on, public school isnt that bad..in fact public school is great and you're exposed to alot of things that are important in life. Such as encountering people from differing ethnic and social economic backgrounds...i think my highschool was pretty awesome and in thsoe standardized tests it did better then alot of private schools, it was one of the highest ranked schools in the province for both atheletics and academics. However im still gonna sent my kids to private school, secular ones though, because id want my kids to have the best, plus i fully intend on treating them like trophies/objects adn the status is dope.


im also gonna buy them both jaguars on their birthday and when the smash em ill buy em lincoln navigators.

[ebbomega]

Originally posted by cinist
I almost went too Brentwood to get out of going to nb, then i was going to go too shawnigan lake, or something like that?

Heh. You grad 01 or 02?

Shawnigan Lake is apparently even more annoying for Day Students. Evening prep is mandatory, a lot of religious undertones and whatnot. Like I said, Brentwood had some pretty rocking programs... Having a coast guard unit running out of our docks was cool.

[SEAN!]

Originally posted by Hot Karl


i look at some of the stuff my littliest sister is doing and it's like, wow that's a bit much don't ya think? in the same respect her grade just had a pacific rim project fair that was at like 7 on a wednesday, and lemme tell you MY gr.6 class sure as hell didn't do anything as cool. THEY HAD FOODS FROM VARIOUS PAC RIM COUNTIRES. how cool is that? :msPiggy:

sucky, my elementary school did, it was fucking tite.

[ebbomega]

Originally posted by k-pryde


i don't know why but i just can't be fucked to read it

You didn't want to read it but yet still felt the need to repost the whole thing and comment on it regardless? You're a class act, man. Kudos to you.

[robyn]

Originally posted by Hot Karl
THEY HAD FOODS FROM VARIOUS PAC RIM COUNTIRES. how cool is that?

We did that in my public elementary school. I made lemon sole.

[ebbomega]

Originally posted by SEAN!


oh come on, public school isnt that bad..in fact public school is great and you're exposed to alot of things that are important in life. Such as encountering people from differing ethnic and social economic backgrounds...i think my highschool was pretty awesome and in thsoe standardized tests it did better then alot of private schools, it was one of the highest ranked schools in the province for both atheletics and academics.

I dunno about athletics, but the standardized tests are hardly what I'd consider "standardized". Fraser Institute has a very anti-public-school streak and sets their standards so that private schools score better than anybody. But props to your school for being able to jump through their hoops.

Like I said, my experience was decent but that's entirely because it was of my own making, and my parents basically put up the money for it. I'm glad I went to public school through till grade 9 at least.

[cinist]

Originally posted by ebbomega


Heh. You grad 01 or 02?

Shawnigan Lake is apparently even more annoying for Day Students. Evening prep is mandatory, a lot of religious undertones and whatnot. Like I said, Brentwood had some pretty rocking programs... Having a coast guard unit running out of our docks was cool.

I would have graded 01 . The one thing I was looking forward too had I gone there was rowing, that interested me a lot at the time.
Private schools can offer so much, it's too bad there is so much negativity clouding and in some cases out weighing the advantages.
When I was deciding where I would be going to high school, I had my mother with one opinion, my father with another. The capitalist vrs. The socialist I guess you could say. Luckily, the socialist won out with regards to my education, my personality is still being decided. I think my greed may make me my mothers daughter in the end though.

[prozac]

http://www.vws.bc.ca/

HELL YEAH.

[Dr. Doom]

Never.

[Mo...]

well if the private skool isnt religious well mayb.. but i wouldnt want my kid to live a sheltered life.. ( even if i have kids ) public skool rocks!! so I would prolly end up sending em to public! lol.. not to sure tho!

[Tux]

HELLS NO! don't think im gonna have kids anyways, but if i do.. they're not gonna go to some prissy private school and become all wussy and stuck up.. i'd sooner send my kids to boot camp than to any fuckin private school.