Quote Originally Posted by Cody View Post
yeah bob send your kid to shitty public schools where they can be influenced by the kids from all the other broke ass dysfunctional parents, that's a great environment to teach them solid 1950's nuclear morals (because desegregating the schools with tons of darkies hasn't had a detrimental effect at all on the white kids of today)
well middle school kinda fucked me up because some genius decided it would be a good idea to bus my (then) white neighborhood all the way downtown and mix us 50/50 with kids from the projects... i don't know anyone from that school who isn't a mess, i actually did pretty well considering i have no legal history, and not actively addicted to anything

yeah it was traumatizing
so i transferred school zones to go to the best public high school in the district and did much, much better there. my car was broken into once in the school lot but i didn't get fucked with at all. i didn't make alot of friends either but i was able to gain back enough social skills to make alot of friends my senior year and in college (then lost nearly all of them because i was a junkie and they weren't)

the point is, public schools vary alot. what you do is research local schools and use that as a major factor in terms of where you plan to live. i'd rather live in a nice neighborhood and send my kids to their nice, zoned school rather than waste money on private school, or home school them and have them turn out to be socially inept and naive