Ever get really embarrassed for people you don’t even know? That’s how I feel right now for the girls of Padua Academy, one of the finer private schools in Delaware, and a school that could seriously have been a contender for where Selena and I would send our kids (if we had kids, and had settled up there, instead of down here).
In a sketch blatantly ripping-off inspired by the Man Show, the Padua girls were proven somewhat aloof to the concept of women’s suffrage. This pains me 1) cause I am embarrassed for these kids who are the laughing stock of the Internet, and 2) cause this completely undermines my argument that a superior education is to be gained from a private school.
I haven undertaken thirteen years of private schooling from K to 12 (yep, that’s right, Catholic kindergarten — basically prayer, play, snack, nap, more play, more prayer), I have come away with the belief that private schools are vastly superior – especially in Delaware. Selena, a graduate of the Montgomery county public school system, has always believed that you can get a better education in the public schools. In light of this new evidence from my own home town, from my own catholic diocese, I think, Selena is winning the argument — for now.
thats underbelievable!
That video was pretty sad. Like Selena, I went to a public school and it pains me that I can’t send our kids to a private school like Mike went too, but he said something to me that made me think it’s okay to not send them to private school. He said something to the effect of an education being what you make of it and that you shouldn’t have to pay thousands of dollars when you can easily get a very good education from a public school system. I also realized it was kinda my way of keeping up with the Joneses, then I realized I hate the Joneses and decided I didn’t need to do that to myself because I don’t like debt. Private school=debt
Public school=non-debt
PS-Greg, thanks so much for those boxes.
No way. I am a strong advocate for the public school system DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU LIVE. The Montgomery County Public School system gave me an incredible experience and education. I started off in a private school, then went to a public school mid-year fifth grade. I spent the next three and a half years trying to catch up to just the basic level of what the other kids were learning in public school because my private school education left me so far behind. Then I spent my high school career trying to go beyond average classes academically. (In case you can’t tell, I have a really strong resentment for my old private school because of this.)
My point is, it’s all about the location and demographic. From what I have only begun to understand since dating Greg, private school is the thing in Delaware, so I’m sure private school is fine there. In Maryland, it was almost the opposite. I remember instances where people would say, “Oh yeah, so and so was causing trouble so their parents transfered them to Holy Cross.
The MD taxpayers pour so much money into the public school system! Greg and I compare our school experiences and I always feel like our schools had so many more programs, activities and academic options. (I got AP Art credits! Who knew you could!?) I still keep in touch and see my old teachers.
Oh Greg, that sneaky devil. Pulled a pin on a conversation grenade and hid under a funny video.
I send my kids to private school for one reason and one reason only: If a student is continuously acting the fool, that student is gone. Private schools don’t have to put up with the same B.S. that public schools have to.
private school might be a good route if you live in dc too.
for all i know if might be the best option for ALL places that begin with a d.
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Greg, I don’t think you can use this one sorry video to judge all private schools as inferior. This clip shows typical young teenagers who don’t know the meaning of the word suffrage and either 1) thought it meant suffering and/or 2) didn’t care what it meant, they just feel important signing their names to something official and/or 3) didnt care what it was meant, they just really love being on camera. What we didn’t see were all the girls who balked and refused to sign. Remember your grandfather’s adage: Consider the source. The videographer was trying to make a point (several, actually), and I sincerely believe that if the same social experiment had been carried out on a public school campus, the footage would have been edited to three minutes of identical results.
Um, the video has been yanked. Can someone tell me what happened in it?
As for public/private, it depends on the quality of your public school system. I started out in the public school system and the school district was not providing me with a quality of education that my parents were satisfied with, so I got yanked. Meanwhile, I knew a girl in high school who left the Catholic girls’ school we attended to return to the public schools so che could attend the arts magnet school. The school we were at just didn’t have the facilities to teach her the way she needed to be.
I mean, I could tell stories about the girls from an unnamed prissy Main Line Philly academy who didn’t have the functional skills to handle camping without a hairdryer. Or about how the cops successfully embedded a narc in the local public high school (and how he got outed — it’s a great story). Or the fifth-grader who goes to a small Jesus-thumping Christian Academy who is reading on a college level. Or about home-schooling. The key thing really is parental involvement in the child’s education and making sure that the child is learning and learning at an appropriate level.
Whoops! Sorry, not my blog….
Is that one comment really from mom? She should use a different name than “your mom”.
If you google “Padua DE video” you will be able to find the video. I thought that it was funny and a little sad. I also read some of the articles in DE online and there were a lot of angry parents, teachers and students. Holy pete! It was a funny prank. They need to lighten up.