<p>For me, the private school I attend allows me a lot of personal freedom and happiness and the opportunity to learn more and explore. I attended a public gifted magnet school through junior high and it was not a happy experience and I was not challenged intellectually/educationally. I was also bullied. It was a small environment. Had I attended the public high school, it would have been a school of 2000 and I would have been nothing more than another student. I have heard so many reports of bad teachers as well at the school, which is actually one of the top 100 public high schools. I would have “checked out” and not been prepared educationally or emotionally for the rigors of college. </p>
<p>Some of the other benefits of private high schools is their college counseling staff who work to match the students to the right colleges and who promote the high school to college admissions offices so that they know more about the school when a student applies from there.</p>