If you had the choice would you go private?

[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.

[Hecktix]

My days at school were some of the best days of my life and I wouldn't have swapped them for any other school.

At the end of the day, I came out of school with 13 GCSEs grade A*-B, I could have got 13 A*-A if I had tried harder, but that's nothing to do with the school it's simply my work ethic. I fail to see how spending an obscene amount of money can better someones education.

People say that there would be a better class of people, well to be honest, wherever you go in life there's going to be people you don't get on with...

[Sly]

I'd give it a go I supose If I didn't like it I could always come back to public school

[Pyroka]

No, jesus christ the private school kids are so up themselves, they have worse drug problems than the community college I went to, and most of them were ***** anyway. Why pay for more of the **** when you can get less of it for free? I mean, you ever met a stuckup comprehensive kid?

I haven't, but then they probably got beaten up in their first year.

[cocaine]

not one bit, i have the opinion that you're more faced to real life by going to a state or comprehensive school. however private schools round here do FAR better in terms of results, but the grades i get are very good anyway so theres no need for me to go private.

[Glitter]

nah my school was proper ****, but it was the boy tbh!

[Caution]

I'd hate to go to a private school. All schools are teaching the same lessons and it's all about what you put in. It seems to be that parents send their kids to private schools because they have so much money to burn or they don't want their kids being with the poorer/'common' kids.

[-:Undertaker:-]

While I wouldn't swap my school for another, private schools are better and if given the choice I probably would of chosen to of gone to a private school.

[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.

[TheEclipse]

That said, I didn't live in a 'bad area'.