A Number of Cold Reptiles

Something I told myself a lot when I was younger and still remind myself from time to time now as well ^^

man i don't even know where to start. they perpetuate all kinds of social inequality (be that in terms of race, economic status, disability, what have you) under the guise of things like "higher quality education" and "school choice" but at the end of the day it's a lot of bullshit. generally they don't have to follow the same regulations that public schools do so there's less oversight in what's actually being taught or how the school is run. a lot of times the school has to prioritize being a business over being an educational facility which allows for all manner of abuse to happen.

theres a sort of culture of elitism that comes with a lot of private schools, especially big name ones at a college level here in the us, so it creates a huge social barrier for people who don't have the money/profile/family legacy to get in. there can be an advantage just to having gone to one of these schools based on their name. and so when it's out of reach for a lot of people for reasons entirely out of their control, it creates a serious barrier to equality of opportunity.

all that besides, private schools take away valuable resources from the public school system. i live in a state with a voucher system, so parents can apply to take taxpayer money that would have gone into public schools as allocated on a per-student basis and put it towards private schooling instead. which is phenomenally stupid but it's all in the name of "school choice"

I'iwi aka Scarlet Honeycreeper (Drepanis coccinea), family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes, Hawaii

That’s right… they’re in the finch family, Fringillidae!