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sheltering
By teachmo

You are still sheltering them from the gangs, fights, overcrowding, etc. that you find in your neighborhood public schools. This doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing in your situation. However, some day they will have
to work side-by-side with these type of people and I have seen firsthand experiences of people that cannot do that because of their private school education. People that do not know how to say no to the dangers that lurk because they never had any knowledge of them and how to handle them. Afterall they were private schooled and it didn't matter because they didn't encounter them. Then

all of a sudden they are in college and some boy is trying to engage in sexual activities (never talked about it, wasn't done at their school) and they don't know what to do. They end up doing it and coming home pregnant because of no experience (I know someone this happened to). The step-parent who lost her step-child to the real mother. They wound up moving from private to public. The public school was 85% white, non-gang, non-fighting children. They had no concept of how to make friends because it was never an issue in their private rich school it was all about the money. They ended up with the 15% (diversity of cultures) gang members, fighting, drug experience children. (This happened to a parent at our church) My dh moved from a private elementary to a public high school where 1% were minorities. He ended up doing drugs, making bad grades, arrested, etc. He cleaned up long before I met him or we wouldn't be together. He had no clue what kind of experiences were out there. I feel that my public education offered me the choices but it also offered my parents and teachers the opportunity to educate me to make the right choices. This is just my opinion and I am sorry you are offended by it. These are firsthand experiences I have seen. It sounds like you are making the best choices you can for your child. I wouldn't send mine to the public schools in your area either but I don't live in that type of district. Nor do I live in the bigger cities/states where that is very common and hard to move away from. I know in some places it is.