ND: Private School
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Why the need to wager? Just prove it.
Here is what I found when searching “Teacher identifying as a cat”. “The hoax became a talking point for conservatives, turning on two key issues: gender nonconformity and educational accommodations.”
I don’t know how to “prove it” on here. But look it up. I live in Orange County, FL. There are at least two teachers at Maitland Middle School and Winter Park High School who identify as animals.
Bro. You literally said you had proof. Your talking points are busted.
You can find the high school teacher’s profile on FaceBook. He came from Duval County in 2018. He identifies as a cat.
No in the Denver area. It’s way worse here than there I’m sure.
And that’s why my kids went to SMM and BMCHS. And that’s probably the best school district in OC,FL.
I’m pretty good at this internet machine and I find it odd that not one article comes up for “teacher identifying as a cat”. Again, until proven otherwise- not true.
Love it! Those are great schools, and we have lots of friends there. And that’s why my kids are at OCS. Some things are more important than money, and I’m thankful we can make the sacrifices to protect them while they grow/develop.
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It appears that is his last name and he is a HS Science teacher in Orlando from Duval. Nothing about identifying as a cat. Keep on with the narrative though if you must. BTW- who cares if he does? It doesn't have any impact on students or his ability to teach science. I do find it hard to believe that a science teacher would identify as another animal, but you do you.
My wife grew up in Louisiana so she did private school until college and I did private school until high school, so it was just a natural move for us. OCS is a great school for sure, know some folks who sent theirs there back when and loved it. It was worth the sacrifice to send ours where they went, and I wouldn’t change one thing. Now that they’re in college, we’re really seeing the benefits of our decision.
We are deeply involved in our local high school. It’s not the best and has its own issues! We started our children in private to get small classes and to set the base. Once you set the base you’ll be fine! After 8th grade we let them choose between private or public. One picked private because of the softball program and ended up at Tech, the other two went public ( son ended up at Vandy and daughter ended up at UGA). And what I have learned from still being involved in the public high school is all schools have problems. Private schools are just more expensive problems. Build the base properly and they will be fine in either one.
It’s not up for debate. Whether you believe the doctrine to be true is up to you, but that doesn’t change the definition of indoctrination.
Once again, how are you a teacher?!
If you care to actually follow Jesus’ teachings, he was about the “wokest” human to ever walk the earth.
Wife working there is critical imo and it’s a big deal for her to take her kids to work with her and have her there to take them home. My kids go to a small private school and there’s some disadvantages for us if you want your kids to have great opportunities in sports but there’s less drama and the friendships have been great. My oldest is in her 2nd year at college and I think the homework and rigor paid big dividends in getting ready for college
No disrespect but this is not an accurate take imo. All about what you want and how much you as parents are involved in your kids education. Public schools aren’t bad in our area but wife switched from teaching public to private. First private school offered little to no rigor, 2nd school did
We did the public school route here in Houston County up until Covid. My wife is a teacher and I own a business. Covid made us realize that we could in fact handle home schooling so my wife quit her public school job and now we home school all three. It’s been the best decision we have ever made as a family.
We use a structured curriculum through something called Veritas classical schools. The kids all go to a common location for four hours on Tuesday and Thursday where their lessons for the week are presented by actual retired former teachers then we are on our own to see to it that their work gets done. They utilize a Christian and classical curriculum.
It’s been absolutely wonderful and all three of our kids are thriving and excelling and actually learning things that they never would have otherwise. The thing that blows me away however is how much free time they have now. There is SO MUCH wasted time in traditional schooling situations. They are in a classroom 8 hours a week, then doing real actual work at home another 10-12 hours a week. It also gives us some awesome flexibility to travel as a family and otherwise do things the traditional school calendar doesn’t.
We use a structured curriculum through something called Veritas classical schools. The kids all go to a common location for four hours on Tuesday and Thursday where their lessons for the week are presented by actual retired former teachers then we are on our own to see to it that their work gets done. They utilize a Christian and classical curriculum.
It’s been absolutely wonderful and all three of our kids are thriving and excelling and actually learning things that they never would have otherwise. The thing that blows me away however is how much free time they have now. There is SO MUCH wasted time in traditional schooling situations. They are in a classroom 8 hours a week, then doing real actual work at home another 10-12 hours a week. It also gives us some awesome flexibility to travel as a family and otherwise do things the traditional school calendar doesn’t.
lol, veritas, memoria press are all part of what our kids are taught. If you can send kids to a classical based schools or use their materials, I’m a big fan of them
We were driving up to Athens for the Kentucky game Tuesday night and my nine year old son unprompted asked me about the triple entente and Franz Ferdinand. He has to memorize Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening for their poetry recital in front of all the parents later this month. It’s really awesome.
My oldest loved reading the classics and she learned more art than most high schools I would guess. Also on a side note, Highlands Latin School in Louisville is kind of the model for what our school founded itself on. 4 day school and it’s been great
You cannot possibly be falling for that kind of Facebook scammy stuff. It’s the 2020s version of the satanic panic from the 1980s
As an olde, this is one I wish I could go back and do over again. I, like you, didn't see the need to pay for private school when there was a good free option available to me.
As a Christian parent, I did not realize how much school influenced my kids. If I had it to do over again, I would have sacrificed a lot of 'wants' to put my kids through private Christian school or home school them. This and not having more kids is my two biggest regrets in life when I look back.
Having said that, i have family in education in south Georgia. They swear up and down that their schools are not the moral abyss that schools in other areas are but still, I'd rather have no regrets than give my kids over to the government who in large part is trying to destroy/ridicule all the values and moral truths that I want to pass along to the next generation.
My two cents.
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I am not on Facebook. I didn’t learn about it on Facebook. I learned about it from a friend whose daughter was in that guy’s class.
I do not care if you believe me. I honestly couldn’t care less.
The point of my post, which got derailed, was that there are plenty of legitimate reasons people choose to send their kids to private religious schools apart from AP/IB programs. It’s a choice my wife and I made, and it was and is our prerogative.
Anyone who disagrees can keep their kids in the public school system. Luckily, in Florida, you get $7-9k per child to use toward essentially whatever school you want.
I spend $4k a month for my kids school. Yeah, I could move, but we love it here. Cant help it that the public schools suck. But its not that they all suck here in Galveston. Its basically a lottery. Some schools are an A and others are a C. No reason for that because its not a big island. The school super said when I asked, "its all about the administration at the different schools". My response was exactly what you think it would be...."you are the boss, that is your fault. change it".
LOL, my middle brother went to Lovett and then SMU. Transferred to St. John's and then Michigan for his MS.
I know its accurate? You do you man. Have at it.
How do you know my kids arent aspiring to go to an Ivy League school (MIT actually)? Maybe that is our bang.
At MIT, almost 40% of their student base comes from private schools, yet only 10% of all high school students go to private school. Advantage? Of course there is and only a fool would even try to disagree. Its a better education in most situations for reasons you damn well know. Less distractions, overall better teachers, smaller classes, and more specific classes pointed towards programs like RSI. Private schools provide a more specialized and focused curriculum with smaller class sizes rather than focusing on state level testing so they can keep their funding.
And of course you are looking at it all wrong. "the vast majority of private school kids go to a run of the mill public University". Source? There isnt one. The facts are simple. Most Ivy League schools have roughly a 3-2 average of public vs private school kids, yet, once again only 9-10% of the total high schoolers go to private schools. Its pretty simple math. And below is one of many sources....see below.
The Ivy League might be a bastion of private higher education, but does this mean that their undergraduate student bodies are typically admitted from private high schools? The data reveals a pan-Ivy breakdown of students admitted from public versus private high schools at a ratio of roughly 3 to 2. This may seem fairly democratic, but it is worth keeping in mind that 91% of students across America are enrolled in public schools, and only 9% are enrolled in private schools, according to Department of Education data. In other words, private school students are still overrepresented across the Ivy League. - Ivy Coach
And finally, your comment "Imagine paying for private school for any number of years and having to send your kid to Auburn or for that matter Georgia." I dont care if my second son, who wants to go to LSU or UGA, chooses a state school. He is going to go there and excel. Not saying a public school kid wont, but I like the odds. I also like him going to this school and being exposed to the environment that demands excellence. Once again, not exclusive to private school kids, but I saw who he was in class with the half year he was at public school here in Galveston. And to be clear, I said in another post, the public school in Mandeville was fantastic.
So in conclusion, your sweeping comments are way off. Ask anyone here that lives in New Orleans if public school is even close to an option. Do it. Ask.
SMU is ranked in the Top 50 or so of all universities. Its a very good school. Just my .02
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I am going to edit this. Thats a muscle memory error based on my constant posts on SM about UGA. LOL
SMU is as private as they come. The graduate schools are good, particularly if you want to stay in Texas. Undergrad is meh…if you can afford it (and afford to keep up with the Jones), you can get in. All that said, awesome campus, cool area, and great looking coeds.
Damnit, I am going to get this one quoted often. My mistake. I know its private, have no idea why I said Public.
I knew you knew, hence me just calmly, without judgement, just stating what I knew you knew. Accident.
Thats because private school kids are the ones likely to afford Ivy’s. Scholarship money is limited, in particular at Ivy’s. Ill invest the private school money for my kids and they will love it come graduation from UGA.
Hard to argue when you love your kids, cept' it comes down to them "being given" or "earning". I was party to both but the latter fvcked me up.
Gonna push back on some of this. The investment comes in different forms. My wife teaches at our small school (not even 10 yrs old yet and I serve on the board of it). Tuition is discounted heavily b/c she takes less than half of what she could make teaching a good public schools. So there's sacrifice for us just like there is finanical sacrifice for the families that are paying close to full tuition or are paying full tuition. Daughter was the first of a whopping 3 graduates. She goes to Georgia College and is studying to be a teacher, so it's not like it's giving her some huge advantage or anything as she could get a teaching degree or any 4 year degree and get a chance to teach walking out of college. For us, the sacrifice was as much about the environment we wanted to put our children in. She's somewhat introverted naturally so that would have been the case in public school even though we've lived in the same area since we got married.
All that to say, she's thrived once at college b/c she knew who she was when she graduated high school. She's walked on to run cross country and she's one of only 2 people left on the girl's team since she walked on the team last year. Why? Because she doesn't mind the work and knows it's just part of it if you want to run. Now her learning curve was bigger b/c as you said, there just wasn't competition even at meets like there is in high school, but she made huge gains once she get to Milledgeville.
She learned time management going to a 4 day school and having to do the half day on her own and then doing a few dual enrollment classes her senior year. 4.0 through the first year and a half. I say all that to say this. No matter the school, be it public or private, parents should want any school to teach them how to think, not what to think. If you (not you specifically Hack but parents in general) think that there is a school that provides that, be it public or private, imo find a way to get your kid to that school. If the kids are challenged in learning, they'll be fine in college. And on the humerous side, if you've invested in a private school, especially the pricy ones, then you'll probably won't be shell shocked at the college expense 😁
