Reply #19: Fair enough [View All]

I went to public schools for 9 years and was a failure. I was smart, but was a constant discipline problem that no one wanted to deal with.

My parent's sent me to a Jesuit college prep school (my dad had to bust his ass on side jobs as a carpenter to pay for it) and they turned me around in my first semester (graduated with a 4.0 in mostly all Honors/AP courses).

My wife went to 13 years of Catholic schools and loved it, so we decided to make the sacrifices to send our kids there. I can count on 2 hands the number of families I know who are rich. However, we also live in a 40-50 year old parish, so it is a middle income/working class neighborhood.

One of the things I loved about my high school was their active recruitment of poor and minority students. Fortunately, there is a Fortune 500 company here that basically picks up the tuition for all of these students. I would say I was exposed to a much greater cross-section of society than I would have been had I gone to the public high school.