Why I send my kids to private school by gohba.handcrafts

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Why I send my kids to private school
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We have many debates between our friends as to our decision to send our kids to private school.  People accuse us of being snobs, or thinking we're better than other people.  But this isn't true.

The reason we work 2 jobs and scrimp and save to send them to private school is to give them the best chance of success.  This has many different layers, that best chance doesn't necessarily mean that they'll get better teachers at a private school compared to a public school.  But it allows them an environment where similarly minded families can work together to give their kids the best start.

The other reason we send them to private, is that our local public school is rubbish.  It grades low on the annual NAPLAN tests, the families are all from very low socio-economic environments.  Maybe this is snobbery, but if you had the option to have your kids out of this environment, wouldn't you do it as well?

The school we attend is a christian school, they do church services in their own abbey, they have nuns living on site as well.  But the thing we love about our school, is that its a working dairy farm, its set in the bush.  The kids are free to play in the grass, they do classes outside and incorporate their learning into real life.  Doing nature subjects, they go out into nature and learn and see what they are taught in the class.  Be it different tree, or about weather etc.   If they are learning about Medieval times, they have their own museum on site that has artifacts from all these times.  For anyone in the Brisbane region, you have probably heard of the Abbey Medieval Festival, that's held on our school grounds.

So I hope you can understand my thoughts, not that I really have to justify my actions to anyone, but this has been something on my chest that I've wanted to offload for a while now.

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@sirknight ·
Wozsers - I am heading heading back to (private) school too if the teachers look like this!  

Seriously though - the kids seem to get far more attention and genuine caring at the private schools.  And the teachers seem to get far more respect - so they have a genuine passion for their job.  *(However, I also know there are great public school teachers out there, so don't get me wrong)* 

So I hear you GH and in a similar boat re 'working for the kids education'.

SK.
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@gohba.handcrafts ·
thanks mate.  You're right, all the teachers at this school seem to want to be there, they don't look like busted shells of their former self.
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@steembusiness ·
I guess that's due to the fact that they get paid properly and have nice kids to work with, which might make it easier for them as well.
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@necromortis ·
Sounds like your kids definitely have an excellent head start. The fact that you and your partner scrimp and save to send your kids to their school shows a real commitment to your children. I agree completely with your reasoning. The fact that your kids aren't bubble wrapped and are able to experience the world in an educational manner is great. Thank you for sharing!
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@ryivhnn ·
Yeh you don't need to justify that decision to anyone XP You're doing the best you can for your kids with what you know and have at the time and that's all you can do.
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@bmj ·
That sounds like a fantastic school. We all want the best for our kids and do what we can.

My kids go to (my youngest will be next year) public schools outside our local catchment area, which have bery high standards. Luckily they have been accepted into specialist proframs because of their acedemic or sporting abilities. There was no way we would let them go to the local high school... for various reasons(similar to yours).

Good on you for slogging it out for yoyr kids to get the best chance of getting somewhere in like. Much respect.
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@choogirl ·
Not that I have kids, but the thing that pisses me off most about most private schools in Australia is that they are religious. If that got rid of all that BS, I think I would like them a lot better.
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@gohba.handcrafts ·
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This was something that I was very hesitant of myself. 
But the way it was explained to me was as follows. 
They work of Christian values, 10commandments etc. These are good building blocks for our Australian society. Don't kill, don't steal etc etc. 

They do a morning prayer and once a week a bible lesson. I can handle that. 

I'm sure other schools are much more religious though. 

I made sure to ask about science v religion and they assured me that both sides are taught. Ie Adam n eve as well as evolution. 

But again as I said our school is probably very moderate compared to other church schools.
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@ravingo ·
Private schools has made education as a business, thats the main bad part for me. Consider this, if all like minded families send their kids to public schools - isn't that one good solution to your concern. Also, the kids needs to learn good and bad, this cannot happen in controlled environments . The world itself is one big PUBLIC school, we ought to be ready for any challenges and our kids needs to be prepared for that.  (just my opinion)
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@tremendospercy ·
You gotta do what's right for your kids dude. Govt schools are getting worse year on year so why wouldn't you want better than that for your kids. 
Good on ya buddy you're doing the right thing.
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@jasonhatch666 ·
somewhere between the ideal of not paying for any education, and the state indoctrinating your children, there must be room for common sense public education. reading, writing, arithmetic and the study of humanities; art and cultures. private schools are a large culprit in creating false barriers within society. if you segregate out kids because they have money, you are taking funds away from public education as a whole - while if you are segregating kids based on ability, you are taking away those children who may be best suited to be of assistance to the children that have different abilities, or that struggle with particular issues. The benefit of different kids being around one another is two-fold; those with particular abilities are able to share knowledge and skill with others, and by having people of different backgrounds and abilities together children are able to realize the most important sameness of humans. i am not saying one does not have the right to put their children into private schools. only that if they do they are being inconsiderate of society as a whole, and necessarily hurting public education - and in turn, the public. what the ruling class wants is to indoctrinate the masses in poor public education, while the elite class utilizes their extremely well funded private educational system to both give them their education and their sense of justification in their sense of superiority.
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