Would you buy your way out of bad public schools by sending your child to a private school?

[kelliekat44]

82. Kids only know what they are taught at home. So I would say that most of what happens in school

depends on the parental guidance and discipline originating at home. Sadly, when parents have to work two or three low-paying jobs because of many social factors including their own lack of proper parental guidance for the same reasons, we have a vicious cycle that repeats in public schools. Sometimes the impact of an unfair, unjust, systemic racism is the beginning of the cycle. Parents who want to play by the rules, work hard, but who themselves are treated unfairly or mistreated pass on victim attitudes to their children and this fosters bad attitudes among children in our public schools. Public schools are forced to take children from all backgrounds at all times. So their task is much more difficult. I have no doubts that given a class 80% African American children of professional, well-educated, upper middle income parents, the performance would have been similar to the 80% Asian class mentioned.

Also, my granddaughter who is African American is at age 7 taking Chinese. There is one other AA child and two whites in her class. The rest are Chinese American (10). The most unruly and undisciplined children in the class are the Chinese children who continually talk over the instructor (Chinese female), get up and walk around and disrupt the class frequently. Even the teacher told the parents at a joint parental conference that the families of the disruptive children would have to have their children behave better or be removed from the class. My daughter's decision was already made, after the sessions are over that she paid for in advance, she is removing my granddaughter and seeking instruction elsewhere.

I might add that my grand children were all started out in private religious or non-religious schools simply because the public school system does not provide for adequate before and after care. Most private schools provide this service that is included in the tuition. We are by no means wealthy but we are not poor either. My daughter is a single mom (widow) raising two girls 6, 7. She must work and therefore needs reasonable before and after care. I help as much as i can but she does not live near me. I had to do the same thing with my daughters even though they had a dad in the home. We both had to work to live above the poverty level. Without affordable childcare for before and after care, we placed our children in private day-care and elementary schools that provided before and after care. The dire need for childcare services is another burden on working families and our school system.