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crazycatlady

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41. I was that kid that was bullied

Mon Dec 18, 2017, 03:37 PM

Dec 2017

I went to a nationally recognized public school system that let me slip through the cracks. I was scared to go to school from 4th grade to high school graduation. Because I was at a small school, the chances of reinventing yourself are as high as Donald Trump respecting women. Mistakes you made in kindergarten were still talked about in high school.

I would have given my left arm to be able to go to a different school (public or private) just to get away from kids who wanted to make my life miserable.

The school's solution to me was to put me in counseling with girls who were drug addicts. If I fought back, it was me that would get in trouble. Never the (popular) bullies. My parents also didn't do anything.

(This was in the 80s and 90s, before anti bullying legislation).

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Are Private Schools Immoral? [View all] WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 OP

My son's parochial school is 30% Black, 30% Latino and 24% Asian RandySF Dec 2017 #1

No. Sneederbunk Dec 2017 #2

White wing racists who send their kids to private mostly white schools are immoral, not the schools Hoyt Dec 2017 #3

BINGO!!!!! tonyt53 Dec 2017 #10

The article uses the example of schools in Brooklyn. EL34x4 Dec 2017 #33

Well, almost 20% there voted for Trump. Hoyt Dec 2017 #34

Lol at these first three answers. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #4

You asked a question; don't have a go at people for answering it muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #15

I didn't; the headline of the article did. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #24

You posted it, and GD doesn't demand that the thread title is that of an article muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #25

Fair enough! WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #26

I went to a private school, and it was a great experience for me. IluvPitties Dec 2017 #5

I serve on the Board of a Private School...my mother serves on the Board of another. brooklynite Dec 2017 #6

I ask people to read the article rather than reacting to the headline. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2017 #7

In that case, I ask you to change your title... brooklynite Dec 2017 #8

Magnet schools and charter schools are public schools. Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #20

brooklnite has it right. If you want people to react to the article... JHB Dec 2017 #16

The inequalities found in public school have nothing to do with private school...they have to do Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #17

You don't manage inequality by forcing parents to send their kids to bad schools with the idea that Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #21

Where are the schools the article describes? Sophia4 Dec 2017 #9

Where they replace public schools, yes. meadowlander Dec 2017 #11

This is the United States. No parent should be forced to send their kids to school anywhere. Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #18

Yes, "the United States".... CanSocDem Dec 2017 #22

I won't argue with that ...but we need to make education a priority. And any party that advocates Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #23

There is no method to improve bad schools that will work meadowlander Dec 2017 #40

My kids come before ideology Loki Liesmith Dec 2017 #29

They already are in almost every state. meadowlander Dec 2017 #37

There are many reasons a kid might go to private school crazycatlady Dec 2017 #28

Only because we have gutted our public schools. meadowlander Dec 2017 #38

I was that kid that was bullied crazycatlady Dec 2017 #41

Screw that. My little girl was bullied Codeine Dec 2017 #35

horseshit nt Dreamer Tatum Dec 2017 #42

Blanket statements r bad dembotoz Dec 2017 #12

The faith-based private schools are immoral IMO. They churn out lots of self-righteous spoiled brats Doodley Dec 2017 #13

No. Especially if you are assuming that all private schools are the same PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #14

That is exactly it...Private schools are not 'immoral'. Public school are inadequate often Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #19

We spend over $600 billion a year on education Calista241 Dec 2017 #36

No. Next question? Loki Liesmith Dec 2017 #27

nope Joe941 Dec 2017 #30

I worked in a small suburban school district just over the line from Detroit. GreenEyedLefty Dec 2017 #31

I agree and would argue that yours is one of the top posts on this thread. Caliman73 Dec 2017 #39

I went to a non religious all black private school in the 70's NYC SummerSnow Dec 2017 #32

The issue is integration not private and public aikoaiko Dec 2017 #43