
The private school I went to was more cliquey and I got into more fights than the public school I switched to in 9th grade. Because everyone knew each other since preschool, old drama built up. In public school I had a much better education and more opportunity to take advanced classes. It’s not some binary separation of good and bad schools.
Non-religious private schools, there everywhere down here. You being a yankee says a lot. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m sure you’re assessing accurately for where you are, but down here there are well funded pub schools that suck, and poor private 1’s (religious or not) that are great