Would you send your kids to a private school?

but is that diversity and life experience actually what matters if they get **** grades?

If your just mixing with rich, upper class people (I'm not saying ALL private school children are, but come on its the majority),

turning it round, if they went to a private school and achieved good grades but at the same time never meet a working class person the whole time they were at school and graduated knowing nothing about 'real' life, would that not be even more damaging?
obviously, i would want my kids to work hard and and get good grades as well but i don't see why sending them to a state school would jeopardize that.

I wouldn't say most private school people were rich or upper class. The majority (in my experience anyway) are middle class and well off enough to send their children to private schools. I also think that it's more the area you live in that makes a school's population more diverse than the type of school (I used to live in London, I was basically the only white kid in the year in my school, which was private btw)

Anyway, I think this whole "I would *never ever ever ever ever EVER* send my children to private school thing" is silly, if you live in a very bad area sending your children to the local comp could be the worse thing you ever do for them. Surely as a parent you would want the best for your children, so yes; you want them to mix with different types of people and be well rounded (two things which you can actually do at private school) and you want them to have a good education.

In any case even if you still think that private schools don't produce well rounded individuals I don't see why it actually matters so much. School is for education, you learn the "education of life" from actually living your life, not sitting in a classroom, whether you're at a state or a private school.

I'd send them to a state school because I'm personally glad I went to one myself. Money issues aside, private schools are just too sheltered from the outside world, with their strange traditions and rules. The fact that there's a Facebook group called "My head of school can grow a beard, smoke a pipe and keep a goat" says it all, really.

I would send my kids to the best school in the area, if that happens to be private then so be it. I would prefer to spend the money each year to give them a good start.
My friend went to private school from 2 years old to 18 years old and she is studying medicine at Imperial. I honestly believe she would not be there now if she attended the state school.

That's simply not true, just because an institution's privately run that doesn't make it 'sheltered from the outside world', and at my private school there's no strange traditions and rules at all. All that facebook group really proves is that you're stereotyping.

so you're saying that even if you had the money, you would send your child to a school where you knew they wouldn't get as good an education?

if there was one thing i could ever wish to have donme, would been to go to private school. I also plan to send my children to private schools to help them achieve their potential

youre being greedy.
why send them to private schoiol ?
state schools are good enuf.

coming from a state school i wouldnt agree

the only real schools that can beat the privates are the state' grammar schools.. if i was to send my children to one it would be a grammar