PRIVATE SCHOOLS: What's the big deal?

Well, in comprehensive state schools, if you're not part of the 'cool' crowd, you pick up symptoms such as depression, low confidence and low self-esteem. They really aren't ideal places for shy introverts - in fact they make people shy introverts. The teachers are too busy and stupid to notice the complexities of emotional bullying - and bullying is something that you can never solve, regardless of the action you take. Some kids are VERY clever at making your life absolute hell.

Private schools on the other hand 'promise' to make your child happy. Despite attending one of the best-reviewed state schools in my county, I still wish I went to a private school instead - not because I'd be academically advantaged, but because it probably would've saved me from years of bullying. My adolescence might've been bearable, and I'd probably be a happier person today.

Having said that, I'm thoroughly against private schools too. I think it's ridiculous to make a profitable enterprise out of education. I'd pay for my children to be educated in a place where they'd be happy, and not have to go through the same trauma and bull**** I went through, but I wouldn't want to give them an unfair advantage in academia. Life's more rewarding when you earn your own privileges...

Just to say, they already have "unfair" advantages the moment they're born. They live in a first world country with brilliant free healthcare, garaunteed education and a welfare safety net, and with you as a parent they (assumedly, judging most of this on this post and your ownership of a tsr account) live above the poverty line in a stable home environment with a safe, quiet place to study and supportive parents that recognise the value of education and will help them with their goals. You've given them a huge advantage with this, moreso than the majority of children worldwide.

Also, private schools aren't immune from bullies. It's rarer to find children from the average bullying background (it often stems from major home life problems) but when there is bullying, it can normally only be stopped (which they tend to do brilliantly in,my experience) if the child admits there is a problem. As i'm sure you'll know, bullied children are often reluctant to confide in others about it.

Actually I'm a 20 year old non-parent student at a Russel Group university, who is in favour of left-wing politics, and likes to slag off highly privileged people - not all, just the ones who act like complete pompous cun'ts. Whenever I say 'I would send my children to blah blah blah', I'm speaking hypothetically. And fyi tsr is more of a student thing, hence why it's called 'The Student Room'...