I love my old school. With our 1970s buildings, the broken guitars in the music room, the gum stuck under the desks, the 60s interior crumbling and falling to pieces, the roof that is made out of compressed newspaper and leaks on rainy days, the gym with no equipment in it, the teachers that made crude remarks and crack jokes with their kids, the way we made use of the 'Oval' which MAGICALLY transformed into a mud-boxing-ring when it rained, the broken equipment and vandalised textbooks...
I LOVE the knowledge that I belonged to an institution where we were there because we wanted to learn, not because my daddy was an old boy, or they won the Rugby championship or were the highest ranked school in this or that region.
I love the fact that when you walk through the quadrangle, you are confronted with people from ALL WALKS OF LIFE. Kids who can't afford the uniform, so they wear clothes that are close to the school colours because they want to stand up and be counted as part of the school population, kids that have gone against all of their family's problems to get somewhere in life and not end up part of the homeless statistics...
I Love Public Education. They gave me my 93.65. They gave me life skills...not snobbery or a false idea of what education or life is.
And people wonder why Public kids succeed (as a whole) at a higher level at University in comparison to Private kids.
But! That's just me, go forth young children and choose what you want...or let your parents decide. We're all different, unique, and that's what makes us wonderful.
Now will someone PLEASE get rid of this god-damn stupid thread?
My school is better than your school bullshit. Far out. Grow up.