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[MattTheSkywalker]

Those are things I have always wondered about....

I mean how do kids from a private school background deal with kids who have had a more "interesting" public school experinece....

we usually pay them low wages. Sometimes we make jokes about them. It isn't too hard, really, to "deal" with them.

also for athletics - my public school was 5A (largest) and would have kicked the crap out of any private school in the area... I know there are exceptions of course - but what about the majority?

The very best basketball schools (and some other sports) are private schools that recruit from all over.

This matters not, as it is not the function of the educational system to develop athletes.

 

[Y_lifter]

She is making the switch into public school in 7th grade...

She already said after 3 weeks that the stuff they are doing in class, she did last year in 6th grade in Private School. She is likely going to request AP classes.

As to Sports Matt.. It's a bit different with girls sports in Private Schools vs Boys due to limited interest in certain sports in the smaller private schools.
So, not enough for a full team. Maybe its different in Larger cities with more and larger private Schools. Most here are sized in the < thousand student range

 

[Becoming]

we usually pay them low wages. Sometimes we make jokes about them. It isn't too hard, really, to "deal" with them.

Actually that is a good point - since I guess a kid that was in private school all their lives could theoretically go to college and then work without ever really having to deal with "the masses" and the issues of the general public...

The very best basketball schools (and some other sports) are private schools that recruit from all over.

This matters not, as it is not the function of the educational system to develop athletes.

No, but it not the function of the educational system, but it is something that a lot of people place value in and I know I myself was happy to have the advantages of having a good program to participate in...

Also I think that students that take advantage of these programs end up much more well rounded (those who also do very well academically of course - that is participation is not to the detriment of their education)

I do know that a lot of them have fine programs (joliet catholic and mt carmel both near chicago are good football programs)... and I guess now thinking about it more, if it is important to have those programs it would be easy to select for them as well...

good info, thx...