Education & Work Private vs. Public School

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  1. Lacrim

    Lacrim Well-Known Member

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    You could always rent a place within the catchment area of a good public school....unless its fully selective, and yes, you have a test you need to sit for. We've just been through this with our eldest.
     
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  2. Ross Forrester

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    Sadly the private schools around here are all single sex.

    We have a few years left to choose private or public. But if a private school went co-ed we would be delighted.

    Otherwise our local public is awesome: and co-ed.
     
  3. Scott No Mates

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    So are the ones near us, which is why many choose them.

    Is there a reason that selective or in demand public schools are single sex? Eg Sydney Boys/Girls, Cheltenham Girls, North Sydney Boys etc?

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    Guildford Grammar has gone co-ed.
     
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    The domain app works well as you can select a property in map view then tells you the schools catchment/s the house is in. You can also select the school to highlight the catchment area
     
  6. mrdobalina

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    So did your parents buy you an IP with the money they saved from sending you to a public school?
     
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  7. Ross Forrester

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    Yeah but that is a long way away.
     
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    I think that the leading edge thinking circa 100 years ago that single sex teaching was best. "Girls spent their whole time trying to impress boys and boys cannot concentrate with girls around."

    Both my wife and I just think that life is not like that. Boys and girls need to know how to talk to each other. It is not great to turn 18 and have had virtually no social interaction with the opposite sex.
     
  9. Lacrim

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    That's true
    So's this ;)
     
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    but on the flip side school is so quiet with no bitching without the fairer sex :D
     
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    I'm not looking at it from a money perspective. I do think that money could be better spent though. My wife went private, so the MIL obviously thinks it's worth it, and if it makes her happy, who am I to get in the way of how she spends her hard earned money?
    I don't expect a cent of it to one day to become mine, and will never look at her money as being mine. I make my own way in life.
     
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    Nah I got a massive round the world trip. I hadn't been introduced to the world of investments yet.
     
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    I've spent plenty of time in both private and public education. I think it depends on what you want out of your child's education and the child as well. Do I think a private education means better achievement and more ambition? Not at all. The reason I would choose private or home schooling would be if I thought the school's ethos was one I wanted to see taught to my child.

    Private schools produce children lacking ambition and a work ethic (seems that the common denominator is parents that spoil the children with material goods and so why work hard?), drugs can be found at both (parenting stops interest).

    The only reason to send a child to a private school is for values, a good state principal makes state a viable option. Even the old school connections do not exist except in people's heads. There is more funding in state education though, so a child who is struggling will always have more help in the state system.
     
  15. Lacrim

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    The number of 'connections' I made from my (elite private) high school? Zero.
     
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    I think public is the way to go.

    You learn heaps more in the public system.

    For example I learnt to drive at 14 years at a public school. A class mate would steal the principal's car keys each Friday morning and we'd take turns driving around Mt Druitt for 2 hours before returning the car and keys undetected.

    Sure, we refilled the car with fuel syphoned from other teacher's cars.

    The public education system gives one a more practical readiness for life.
     
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    Will be sending to public when I have kids. I don't believe private is any better. Personally I think it all comes down to how much time parents are able to spend with their kids to instill the right values/work ethic and also supplementing their formal education with a more worldly one.
     
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    Does that mean you will be a one income family to enable one parent to stay at home to instill those values or outsource to childcare/preschool from 12 weeks?
     
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    When we have a kid the wife wants to take some time away from helping me and give it to our kid which I think is a good idea. If I need to get someone else to help me then we can organize that. Also I plan to be a very present father. I don't think we want to be in a situation where we are both working in the business 24/7 and have no quality time to be with our kid as they grow up.
     
  20. willair

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    I thought you went to school overseas..
     
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