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I agree with J.R. VanHoose, there are a lot of good teachers out there.

I went to a small private high school until the 8th grade. After graduating there, I went to the public city school. I went from a class of 10 to a class of 30, but it wasn't a big adjustment for me since I knew the people there from middle school sports. I will tell you this.... IT IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT! I'm not from the area, but you make the most out of the situation you are in.

Every school has it's positives and negatives, whether they are private or public. To call a school a "drug infected horrible atmosphere" is assuming that drugs are out of control there. Let me tell you this, there were drugs at my high school, but it was very minimal (small school), and everyone knew not to associate with those people (and most of them had disappeared to other schools by the time we got to senior year). Not to mention, there was a private high school in the next county over that had a lot worse issues than we did at the public city school, and this was before the heroin epidemic really took charge.

I am not saying that one school is better than the other, but as someone mentioned on this thread why private schools are more advanced because they don't have to take the problem children. Would I send my kids to the high school that I graduated from? Yes, in a heartbeat.