tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post114751600187054572..comments2023-07-03T21:44:22.373+10:00Comments on Hoyden-About-Town: I teach at a public school, that's why I'm sending my daughter to a Catholic high schooltigtoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1148042124469755752006-05-19T22:35:00.000+10:002006-05-19T22:35:00.000+10:00When I was in my senior years of high school I tot...When I was in my senior years of high school I totally longed to go to boarding school, but that was probably to do with being in a country high school where I knew I wasn't being challenged enough compared to my earlier urban high school, and also some domestic tensions I would rather have been spared. On vacation once we met a teacher from a boarding school in Melbourne who offered to go to tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1148030766963024822006-05-19T19:26:00.000+10:002006-05-19T19:26:00.000+10:00I send my precious youngest daughter to private bo...I send my precious youngest daughter to private boarding school (yes catholic)((oh the ex pays for it.. not me!)). I agree with anonymous on "horses for courses"? My baby is there simply because IT IS EASIER. Who is it easier for? Probably me. Definately the other kids still at home attending state school. For her? I have to let time judge that. But poop to the idiot condescending parents who Melly`https://www.blogger.com/profile/05458628260084097603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1147741474193731242006-05-16T11:04:00.000+10:002006-05-16T11:04:00.000+10:00For clarification, I don't mean to diss the Cathol...For clarification, I don't mean to diss the Catholic parochial school system. They've been doing it for a long time and are generally well integrated with the public schools around them, and certainly in Australia are happy to take in students of other faiths, asking only that they are respectful in chapel.<BR/><BR/>Where I see suburbanite flight is with the proliferation of independent tigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1147655900458332132006-05-15T11:18:00.000+10:002006-05-15T11:18:00.000+10:00Then you get the other version. "I teach in a cath...Then you get the other version. "I teach in a catholic high school and send my kids to a state school.."<BR/><BR/>Horses for courses. And I notice my friends sending their kids off to private schools and gritting their teeth when they come home with those strange drawly accents and demands to go skiiiiiing. <BR/><BR/>And I have friends who hated a particular private school and then sent their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1147600808203515712006-05-14T20:00:00.000+10:002006-05-14T20:00:00.000+10:00Der Altester Sohn is in his second year at St Patr...Der Altester Sohn is in his second year at St Patrick's College and loving it. However, Catlick schools here are integrated with the state system, not private, and 'Stream is certainly not a place white flighters would find comfortable. Besides, it's far too affordable to be patronised by the right kind of people...Mentis Fugithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07964443139632139131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1147572808707921762006-05-14T12:13:00.000+10:002006-05-14T12:13:00.000+10:00Yes, I do see Vicki's point. And my parents were b...Yes, I do see Vicki's point. And my parents were both teachers (and principals) and we lived in a country town (blow-ins not born and bred) and certainly my brother found it difficult. Actually, I desperately wanted to go to a boarding school - I believed all those stories about the midnight feasts. But I still find it strange when public school teachers send their children to private schools. <ThirdCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961559066632251691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1147562754114165282006-05-14T09:25:00.000+10:002006-05-14T09:25:00.000+10:00Certainly there are some kids who would do better ...Certainly there are some kids who would do better in smaller schools than the average public high school. The story of the assistant principal reminds me of my senior high school years in a small country town, where one of the boys in my year was the principal's son.<BR/><BR/>It was bad enough being a blow-in (versus born-and-bred) in that school without being the principal's son too. He wasn'ttigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989643095255493683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1147532669127465482006-05-14T01:04:00.000+10:002006-05-14T01:04:00.000+10:00We should be a little careful in distinguishing be...We should be a little careful in distinguishing between the individual and the general. In general, I totally agree with tigtog; my children graduated from public schools in the US, in a blue-collar suburb of a small city. They entered very selective universities and carried with them a semester's worth of college credits that they'd earned in this high school. I think a lot of parents sell Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16566466.post-1147517792755352642006-05-13T20:56:00.000+10:002006-05-13T20:56:00.000+10:00Yes, I know. It is truly bizarre.Our assistant pri...Yes, I know. It is truly bizarre.<BR/><BR/>Our assistant principal sent her children to a private <I>boarding</I> school, and her son (now a university student) was turning the sausages at our sausage sizzle the other week saying 'best thing she ever did'. I don't understand it.ThirdCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961559066632251691noreply@blogger.com