Private Schools vs Public Schools

This is a dilemna facing all parents that can afford to pay for private schooling for their children. Is private schooling really the best option for your child? The price of enrolling your child in a private school certainly suggests that they will recieve a better education. As a parent perhaps the idea of your child being educated around other financially fotunate students is comforting. Private schools are better funded than public schools doesn't this mean your child will recieve a better education? This is not always the case.

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Sending your child to a Private School doesn't always mean they will recieve the better education nor the better social skills that come with social interaction later in life. Children that are educated through the public education system are subjected to students from a more diverse family background. Children who interact with those who are less financially fortunate helps build character by developing such skills as empathy, acceptance and understanding. Whereas a student that has been educated through the private education system will have less of these social interactions at an earlier age they are prone to develop an ignorance towards those who are less financially fortunate than themselves.

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The private education system goes through the process of discrimination every enrollment. If your child is GLBTI or doesn't conform to the schools religious beliefs the school has the right to reject students based on those grounds. This practice of discrimination can affect your child in the following negative ways 1) To teach the active discrimination of GLBTI people is to encourage bullying and the false sense of these children not being "normal" or lesser than. 2) To discriminate students of an educational system based on religious grounds not only highlights alterior motives in the churches bid to contain alternate theories/religions, it can create a sense of self righteousness within your child who is convinced that all other religions/ ways of thinking are invalid. This sense of self righteousness can delude the child all the way through its life and affecting the persons ability to process what other people say and to look at things objectively.

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Public schools although accepting of all students can struggle to provide the necessary resources to properly educate your child due to being underfunded by the government. Larger classes and a lack of skilled teachers can have negative affects on your childs education.

The debate as to whether your child is better off in the public or private education system depends on the parent and what they believe is best for their child. Generally private schools are better equiped to educate however students must conform to the schools policies based on what the church percieves as "normal". Your child will lack social interaction with those who are less fortunate, sexually or gender diverse and those who believe in alternative/theories and or religions. Public schools although accepting of all children regardless lack the necessary funding to guarantee your child the proper education that could be attained through a private school. Therefore as a parent who is financially viable to to choose its best to weigh up all the options as your childs education not only guarantees their career path but it can instill their future ideals and the way in which they communicate/ socially interact with others.