| SamuelRSmith said: What was the reasoning? Were your parents against the education system, period? Or, did you just have particularly shitty schools? (Basically, I'm trying to work out if your parents are politically engaged, and aware of the fact that public education is really just 12-odd years of pro-state propaganda). |
I don't think this is anywhere near the answer that you wanted, god knows it wasn't what I wanted, but I just asked my mother why. She said she put us in private school because my brother was really anti-social, and she thought it would be a better enviroment for him.
It can be argued that the private schools around here are actually worse than the public schools, the first one I went to was a really strict baptist school. Where we had the Bible stuffed down our throats. It was good academically though, since you were reading really well by Christmas in kindergarten. The second private school... it was just a joke, I was reprimanded for writing in cursive, and I finished all the problems in my math book by myself, and then the teacher just made me sit there... doing nothing for an hour a day ;_;
My dad does do the occasional rant about how they are propaganda machines, so that might have had a bit to do with it to.
