This is not your stereotypical "private schools suck because they have school uniforms, whereas public schools rock because they don't" thread. This is looking at more important issues, such as religious, individual, sexual, romantic, and creative repression. Religious schools force kids and teens to follow a certain religious belief. When you're a child you are consequently forced or at the very least severely encouraged to believe in God at religious schools. Then when that kid grows up and becomes a teenager and adult, they are typically the religion they were forced to be as due to their schooling. If your parents force you to go to a Muslim school, then you'll most likely be Muslim, even if as a teenager in a Muslim high school, you don't want to be a Muslim and you don't believe in Islam. Also, all-boys and all-girls schools, and consequently school uniforms prohibit healthy growth for teenagers. Could you imagine how impossible it would be to go through puberty when you're only surrounded by males? It's like forcing them to become homosexual and repressing their ability to form relationships and explore their sexuality like normal teenagers do. Since they force teens to wear school uniforms, they repress individuality and creativity as well. They also teach one-sided biased information, such as "Islam is the only real religion" and stuff like that. Also bear in mind that students who go to private schools are socially challenged, because they lack understanding for how the public world works, since they are forced to wear school uniforms and go to private schools instead of mingling with the general population. Students who attend private schools often grow up to become less tolerant than students who attend public schools, as you can see here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/opinion/30blow.html
but the fact of the matter is the parents pay for their children to go to these schools. If it weren't the schools indoctrinating them, it would be the parents. I went to a church for youth group in high school that was also a christian academy, and its been my experience that the students at that school all grew up and turned their back on religion and became either pregnant at 18, heavy drug users, or part of various other social problems. I think religious schools breed a feeling of rebellion more than anything.
Ofcourse. I completely agree. Regular school prevent teenagers from being them selves too. Society its self does to. It all need to change one way or another.
They did me no harm. That's not my definition of 'forcing'. I consider myself, now and when I was at school, to be a very creative person.
what ever school you went to forgot to tell you that 'individuality and creativity' cant be figured into your slanted and poorly laid out argument...they are too unpredictable.......one does not have to look far to find some very amazing students of these schools...the part about sucking dick because you go to a boys school is hilarious....and parents send kids to a muslim school because their kids are already muslim..they dont send them there 'hoping' for a muslim kid...and uniforms?clothes do not make the man...
I went to private school, public school and boarding school. The more you pay the more dirty words you learn and the more mischief you get up to. But they're pretty much all the same.
I think, like everything else, it all depends on the school. The public schools indoctrinate the kids with their agenda, just like the religious schools do. As far as creativity, ummm, no. You still have the art, music literature and other classes. Surely, kids do socialize in school, but they are mainly there to learn. And opposite sexes together can be a distraction. I know Vivian Mendez was definitely a distraction for me. Being in a boarding school with only one sex would be weird, but with normal schools you can see the girls after school. Home schooling also has been found to have no effect on kids' development.
If public schools weren't so indoctrinating themselves, and weren't so educationally inadequate, private schools wouldn't exist
Well private schools have been doing it for a long time.... If anything, they're better today. Today a lot of private schools are very forward thinking and generally badass compared to public schools. Of course there's the deliberately backwards ones, but there's always been those. And as a general rule, there's now more daylighting, and while we may see more problems happening in private schools, I think that's a good thing, because they where just hidden before.
