If you had the choice would you go private?

No I wouldn't, 9 times out of 10 private schools are worse than state schools in terms of standards of teaching. No private schools around here have an outstanding OFSTED report for example

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Originally Posted by iAdam

I'd never trade the experience of my school for a private school, it's been so good and you get a good variety of people at public schools.

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hey yknow your location 'EMA,' does that mean East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington sort of area? ;)

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Originally Posted by Gibs960

Personally I think prive it just stupid. Education is supposed to be free in this country, but some people are happy with that, they have to spend money, my mate used to go private, she said it was full of s****. So I never will. And I won't send my kids to a private school. And my brother has been predicted to get straight A's and he's been to a normal school all his life, I don't care if I don't get an amazing mark at Maths because the job I want isn't majorly concentrated on Maths, I just want a C in maths and an A in English and a couple of others, but not really discussed that. No big deal about private school.

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How do you know if you've never been that's a massive generalization i'm not for it but your view seems really narrow minded.

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Originally Posted by Ardemax

Public schools give you a wake-up call on life if you ask me.

They toughen you up for the real world, as the real world isn't all tea at lunctime and blazers.

Plus teachers don't have to be qualified to teach and honestly, I would want a good standard of teaching.

But as someone mentioned, friends. You'll make more friends in a public school than private simply because of the vast amount of people actually there.

Just my opinion.

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Yeah i see what you mean but that might be some people lives. If you go to the best schools in england like eton or whatever you may not have to work because of your familys money but guess that's rare.

I go to a grammar where you can't pay only pass so you get proper brainy kids and fun because we're not s**** some have the money to pay to go private but why bother when we have the best school in my area anyway. We have better results then the private schools anyway LOL

Public.
A) No point getting my parents to pay for it as I do alright already.
B) I've probably learnt more (in terms of life) here then I would have in a private. If you go to private it's like your instantly living the rich life which you're not.
C) The private school near me is full of s**** where some are just dull, boring with no imagination what so ever. They're so dull I couldn't start a convo with them.

You can take a horse to a river but you can't get it to drink.
You can put someone into a private school but it won't get them to learn any better.

Yeah I would, I know I have potential I mean I passed the 11+ with no bursary so I couldn't go so its the next best thing instead I'm stuck in chav land.

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Originally Posted by dbgtz

Public.

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lmaoo you know a public school means the same as a private school

no definatly not, isn't for me plus i don't really agree with private schools