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Comments (10)I am not a big fan of Sylvan. My sons went there last year and it did nothing for them. They practiced things that were below where they were at in school and spent more time picking out rewards than actually learning anything imo. We are about to homeschool our oldest. He has been consistantly behind in school and year after year the school does little to nothing. He has an IEP so they will not fail him and will only continue to pass him along. He has major issues with keeping up with assignments with only two teachers without constant communication with the teachers. Next year with 6 teachers and all the drama that comes along with middle school in general he will surely fail miserably. On top of that every single school I have visited I have heard the same basic speech. "I cant do my job because I have to many kids. I cant do my job because I have so much to do. I cant do my job because teachers wont cooperate with me... blah blah blah" Combine that with the major cuts that we are dealing with in FL... ESE is the first thing that schools are cutting which kills any extra assistance that might have been available (which seems to be little to none) and we are certain traditional public school is not for him next year. There are a huge amount of options for homeschooling if you are serious about it. There are groups and such that your child can go to to learn different subjects. There are also computer programs. We will be using switched on school house combined with a lot of extra teaching... a whole getting back to basics approach with him to keep him on level with his grade but to boost his skills so hopefully he can catch up. My mom worked with switched on school house for my brother... which is why we chose it. It is the entire curriculum on the computer basically. She combined that with practical skills that she felt schools leave out like... how to balance a check book, how to fill out a job application, and how to handle certain finances. The good thing about homeschool is there is a huge amount of flexibility if you are willing to put in the time... for example a trip to the bank to talk to a financial advisor. For my son that is perfect... instead of sitting in a classroom staring at a chalk board learning about photosynthesis we can go out in the garden and experiance it... instead of talking about gettysburg with pictures in a book again experiance it.... it is perfect for a kid with ADD. It does take ALOT of work and you have to be commited. You cant half a@@ so to speak or he might as well be at school. But, if you work at it... it can be fantastic. There should be a homeschool network or group in your area if you look hard enough. Ask a ton of questions... those that have been doing it for a while have a lot of tricks of the trade so to speak and can help you along the way. Plus they can hook you up with organizations that support homeschoolers and things like, in our area, an annual book sale where you can find things super cheap. It is really up to what you feel you can do and what you feel would fit for your son. Only you can know that. Plus, in case you dont know there are in a lot of areas scholarships for private schools that are funded through the county. In ours it is the McKay scholarship... my only problem with that is that the private schools that accept it in our area are not much better than the public... but things could always be better in your area....See MorePrivate Versus Public Schools Transition
Comments (9)My brother and I both moved from private to public school at the same time - I was halfway through 5th grade and he was halfway through 3rd. We had sort of outgrown the small private school we attended, and the atmosphere was kind of going downhill as kids whose parents helped start it up because they were looking for a higher-quality education moved away, and those kids were replaced with kids who got sent to private school out of desperation because they had behavior problems that the public schools weren't addressing. We lived in a small town and the only options were the public school or the alternative program within the public school. My mom arranged for us to sit in on each for a day and let us choose which we wanted. My brother chose the alternative program and I choose the regular public school classroom. I was glad I moved because the private school wasn't working that well for me - most of the kids were younger and I was getting tired of the teacher. It was a frustrating transition though, to go from 20 kids of different ages, 2 or 3 teachers, a non-competitive, non-graded atmosphere, learning at my own pace and helping teach younger kids, to a class of 25 kids all the same age all having to work on the same things at the same times, playing competitive games, being singled out for doing good work, and just generally being in a far more intellectually and socially restrictive atmosphere. It was kind of scary and it made me pretty shy through about 8th grade - at least I think it helped, junior high is the deepest pit in hell after all so who is to say what different factors contribute to each individual child's suffering. For a lot of the kids I knew who made the private-public transition, they eased into public school partway while doing some homeschooling. If you have the time and ability to do a little homeschooling, why not? For a kid who is used to doing advanced work, big public school classrooms can be really boring. I remember days when silent free-choice reading was the only relief from utterly agonizing boredom. If your child finds that he is too far ahead in some areas, I think you are better off handling those areas yourself than letting him sit through them with the rest of the class and then letting them give him extra work through the gifted program. Quantity doesn't make up for quality in education IMO....See MorePre-K in Public School
Comments (26)As far as Pre-K curriculum books go, I have actually seen some very good ones (It looked that way) In Teacher's supply stores. Also some Kindergarten Curriculum books. Some schools have certain requirements as to what subjects these teacher are suppose to cover. As far as curriculums for grade school, usually the teacher has her books (the teacher's edition of the child's textbook)and experience from each year she/he teacher that she draws from, at least in Public schools. She saves this material usually and adds other interesting items she finds to this material. She/he draws from all the material that she is suppose to cover, many times making her own additional worksheets or also buying these at Teacher's supply stores. And perhaps visual aids she may buy at Teacher's supply stores or order. Many times her weekly or monthly curriculum sheets are sent the to the principal, in many areas now, and the principal over looks and ok's the sheet. Good teacher incorporated some additional topics into the curriculum while covering all the material in the books that have been selected for them. I know that many times the teacher must incorporate as well items in his/her curriculum that the children will be tested on. In some states there are additional tests besides the Achievement tests in 6th and 9th grade to see just how the child is doing. And if the child has to take a test to graduate from High school in Jr. High and earlier grades the teacher helps prepare them for these tests in addition to the cirriculum of other subjects she/he has. Some teacher's curriculum can be lacking. As there are some teachers that just can't seem to follow their own cirriculum and don't cover the material that they have even wrote down on their monthy curriculum sheets, which are many times given to the parents in grammar and middle schools. These curriculum monthly sheets are given out especially in grammar school. There are just some teachers that don't make the effort or just aren't organized enough with their time (or) seem to know how to cover the boooks/curriculum that needs to be covered. And there are some that don't really care. Especially after their tenure is up. I didn't say all teachers, I just said there were some that fit in this category. While also their are some principal and other people that just don't thoroughly check the teacher out, and give tenure to some teacher that do not deserve it at all . Sometimes on a subject the state might have more than one textbook they use for one subject. Many times there are also workbooks that go with the texts that the teacher can buy. Creative teacher make up their own worksheets also and during first year teaching , they study many aids to use in their teaching . In grammar school computers can be used. In Middle school onward material the student can learn about Power Point Presentations to make up on the computer. She/he(the teacher) also can present Power point programs, and sometimes teaches helps the students present these programs for the class. The Power Point program is a program that projects pictures and motion, sounds, along with words to present a sort of filmstrip on a certain topic. This is one way of using a good visual aid as a teaching tool. That is usually how curriculums in public school are done around here. Of course there are private schools that have more of a defined curriculum that are in a bought Curriculum book, that the teacher is suppose to abide by, while adding additional material, if she likes. This is usually true for the grammar school, at least. Many times around where I live the same text books in Jr. High and High school are used in the Private schools as the books that are used in Public schools....See MorePrivate school, but not for step kids?
Comments (28)This discussion was about PAYING to send children to private school, because the public schools weren't good. It's just not true that you have to spend a fortune to live in an area that has good public schools. If your area doesn't support public schools, then you either need to fork out the bucks for private school, home school, work to change your public schools, settle for substandard public schools, or you need to move. My public schools are excellent, mostly because parents care about their kids' education. It is not because the parents are rich. There are scores of families in our school district who work in the local car factory, the local hospital, local small businesses, or in other local factories. If you really think that only private schools provide a good education, then you are living in the wrong school district. These people are not wealthy, they were just smart enough to consider their children when they chose a place to live....See Morewhoami_fatbroads_com
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