Definitely a complicated issue. I'll start with the fact that we're white and my two children have been in the Natchez Public School System since pre-school. We've all made a lot of good friends over the years thru the Natchez School. Now the problem I see is the perception of an inferior education in the public schools. All I can tell you is that my two are decent students. They work but they don't kill themselves doing it. Without any prep for the ACT test they've both scored a 22. That's not a great score but it is pretty respectable. Natchez School System must have taught them something along the way. My point is that Private School education is overrated and Public School Education is underrated. The truth is somewhere in the middle. I don't have any answers to Natchez problems, I just want everyone to remember that we all love our kids and want each and everyone of them to do well in life.
Posted on March 2 at 10:29 a.m.
Definitely a complicated issue. I'll start with the fact that we're white and my two children have been in the Natchez Public School System since pre-school. We've all made a lot of good friends over the years thru the Natchez School.
Now the problem I see is the perception of an inferior education in the public schools. All I can tell you is that my two are decent students. They work but they don't kill themselves doing it. Without any prep for the ACT test they've both scored a 22. That's not a great score but it is pretty respectable. Natchez School System must have taught them something along the way.
My point is that Private School education is overrated and Public School Education is underrated. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
I don't have any answers to Natchez problems, I just want everyone to remember that we all love our kids and want each and everyone of them to do well in life.
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