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I attended a private school because public school failed me. I'd been suspended multiple times for fighting with other children who teased me. Frankly, the publ
by slavik81 10y ago
I attended a private school because public school failed me. I'd been suspended multiple times for fighting with other children who teased me. Frankly, the public school's administration didn't want me there anymore. The private school provided a much better learning environment. They helped me learn academically and emotionally. Eight years later, I graduated high school as a model student at the top of my class.
Public schools didn't care about me, and I don't trust them to care about anyone else. Nothing would be fixed by forcing me to stay at a terrible school. You help a war-torn country by getting refugees out, not by forcing people to vacation there.
- bufordsharkley 10y agoI don't think it helps anybody to be forced to go to a failing school, but it only helps those with means. I'm not concerned with forcing children to go to public schools, but rather stopping an inability to pay from keeping children from going to private school.
- slavik81 10y agoI agree. That's why I support school vouchers.
- bufordsharkley 10y agoI could totally get behind a voucher-system, but I think it's important that ability-to-pay should not affect school choice. Do most voucher advocates agree with this?