glocklover wrote:
Private school is better. As you are a client, and not just a "parent' More emphasis on classical education, less social engineering and anti bullying nonsense. Individual attention, and teachers that are not un -fire-able. Waterloo has better options including, International Bachelor programs, which is what wealthy IT foreign professional demand as they are recognized everywhere.
I think the public system is generally good. I never felt that I was being better educated in private school. I didn't come out of it knowing anything more then any publicly educated child.
The problem with the public system it's a one size fits all monopoly (for those who can't afford private school). They can't offer you choice because everyone has a right to use it, so it's always forced to accommodate anything that can be accommodated. That's why you now have transgender kids forcing schools to build unisex bathrooms, and no homework so some kids don't fall behind because of their lazy parents, and they can't discipline bad kids because some parents loose their marbles over it.
And that's what makes it frustrating. If you could choose your schools, you'd pick the one that suits you and your values. If your a rich silver spoons asshole, you have Appleby College. Your average, normal person has places like MacLachlan, and your tree hugging hipster fruitcake has Montessori schools. All those schools reflect the people who use them, and everyone is happy.
Private school's worth it if you can afford it, but if your child is doing well in the public system, I wouldn't sweat it. Just suck up the stupid pink shirt days and do your best to deprogram your kids in the evenings and instil a dose of reality into your kids life experiences and they'll come out OK.