Is it bad to go to a private school?

How can I convince my parents to let me go to private school?

• Alright so I really want to go to a private school. I'm currently in 10th grade and I want to switch schools next year so that I'd have junior and senior year at a new school. I want to switch for a few reasons. 1) I'm not happy with the education I'm getting in my current, public school. 2) My friend goes to the private school I'm interested in and she says it's much better than the school I go to (we used to go to the same school but she transferred) and 3) the reputation of my school is starting to get to be quite bad. At my school I am doing well in all my classes, my lowest grade is a B+ which at my school is 90-92. I have a GPA of about 3.7 or something like that I don't remember. And currently the classes I'm in are all honors classes, I take French 4, Spanish 3, Biology, Algebra 2, English 2, History, and art. In all of my classes I am bored because they are too easy and I am taking the highest level I can take. Although my public school does offer more AP classes than the private school I'm interested in I still think the private school would be a better fit. The private school is an all girls school as well. The reputation of my school is not very good, anymore. The majority of the students do drugs and drink. I know that you get that at any school but it just seems to be quite bad. People are constantly getting in trouble with the police. And entire sports teams do drugs, and the coaches encourage it. A teacher at my school was actually arrested and fired for having drugs at school. So my main question is how do I convince my parents to let me switch schools? The other school sounds much better and my friend who just started going there this year says that it is much better than the school I'm in. Does private school sound better than this public school? Also, it is quite expensive, it's about 16,000 per year, that includes tuition, textbooks, and uniforms. There is absolutely no way that my parents can afford for me to go there, but I know that there is financial aid that we can apply for, but I don't think that my parents really want to do that, I'm not sure why. So how can I make my parents see that private school would be better for me? Sorry this was so long. Also at the private high school the classes are a lot smaller and I think I would definitely benefit from that. Would it mean that we'd be learning things faster because there'd be less people to ask questions and get confused etc? The only way I'd be able to attend the private school is if I got a scholarship/ financial aid.

• Answer:

  you can get a scholarship. Im go to a private school Im only in 8th grade though but there are scholarships you can get if you have good grades like that