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How bad does the "so-so" public school have to be before a parent gets their tribal permission slip to do something else? How much of their child's wellbeing is owed to the maintenance of status of the institutional public school?
My sincere question: Is it wrong to want the best for your children? Does a world where everyone feels compelled to seek C-grade experiences for their kids actually look better than one where every parent does the best they can to find and create better opportunities for them?
Another interpretation is that the difference between schools doesn’t matter to outcomes for the child. I think that interpretation is even more depressing - implies that school is a 6 hour/day holding tank for the child.
It implies that child development is irrelevant, that the most productive learning years of a child's life could be spent in a closet or amongst brilliant friends with zero net effect. Fundamentally unsupported.
"why do parents want the best for their children?" hard to believe discourse has made it this far
Just to provide a counterpoint, people do make sacrifices for the greater good all the time, and sending your kid to public school allows that school to be better funded & thus, presumably, to better educate everyone. Whether they actually do better educate is debatable.
IMO it is less that people think it's immoral to seek the best experience, more that they believe the "best" schools main purpose is to reproduce an elite class, and they don't want to participate in that. (probably varies by country)
Two heated arguments I've had with friends were over this. I argued that I wanted send my future children to a "posh" school 'cos I wanted them to have access to (for Eg.) guitars without holes punched in them with biros. They considered this unethical of me.
The guitars-with-biro-holes argument came from my own experience at a high school where all the gear we had was broken or mistreated in this kind of way. Disrespectfully treated gear leads to disrespectfully treated music, art, maths and so on.
We are making the children fit into our world and thus everything starts from there... I am glad I am able to run an open conversation with you on this
I went to a mediocre high school, and I'm jealous of those who got to go to a really good one.
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