BTW,what the HELL happened to my ability to post in bold,add emoticons,etc,etc,etc? A few days ago I could do all that,but not now.
@sneakypete It's working fine here. Try a different browser. Could be the one you are using has an after-market script blocker or overeager ad-blocker in it.
I strongly disagree. I went to public schools. My curiosity about the world,how some people lived,written records of what some people did and why they did it,etc,etc,etc didn't end when the final school bell rang at the end of the day. I had a library card by the time I was in the 3rd grade,and there were a lot of times I left school at the end of the day and headed directly to the nearest public library.
A sad truth that never seems to get mentioned is that most kids that fail fail because of their own lack of interest in learning anything they don't HAVE to learn.
The old saying "You can lead a horse to water,but you can't make him drink!" adage applies here.
By the time I was in the 5th or 6th grade my teachers were trying to get my parents to let them enroll me is special classes to prep me for college. Of course,my parents refused. They were so out of touch they claimed they were afraid of the high school boys picking on me.
I discovered years later the real reason is they were planning. Which resulted in me having to attend a school where every classroom had two grades of student in them and me not learning a single damn thing. Not only that,but the closest library was 26 miles away.
Sorry for your personal experience, but research the issue. Private schools perform way, way better. And if it were merely a matter of the kids not wanting to learn, that performance would reflect it. In fact, I had one of them kids. My younger son was recalcitrant. He bucked the system every day. And he performed poorer than my other kids, but when he went to public school, his high Bs became Cs and Ds. The difference is plain on it's face.
I am sure that is true,but the truth is that is not the case with every public school. Even in private schools the teachers have to teach at a level that their students can understand.
If they weren't learning the tests and grading would reflect that.
Also,I am not sure,but it SEEMS to me that I have heard or read that there was no such thing as classes for the "Gifted and talented" students.
Not true. At least in my case. My eldest daughter was in gifted programs and was capable of high school math before 7th grade. A prodigy, in everyone's opinion. They wanted to jump her two grades (even in the Christian school). I would not go along with it, because despite her obvious intelligence, I did not believe her to be emotionally ready to deal with hormone infested nearly high-school level children.
And she performed extremely well in her time. She was full-scholarship and wound up in England her final two years.
I have no idea,and my eyes start to cloud over when people start equating money with learning.
Why? What is enough? Would you be fine spending $500k a child? Learning need not cost anything, as Home-schoolers readily demonstrate. And a superior education for half the money in private schooling is nothing to sneeze at. 'What it costs should ALWAYS matter, especially in public programs supported by taxation.
There is not one single child in any school system in this country,private or public,that doesn't have access to a public or school library.
Oh gimme a break. There ain't a single kid out there that does not have access to internet, and thereby, access to way more than a library ever thought of.
You are letting your pro-religious emotional feelings interfere with your reasoning.
No, I am most certainly not. That is why I used the term 'private school' That the one I chose was Christian is because I am Christian, but the education was what it was about. And the education FAR excelled the local public system. That itt was Christian is more or less incidental except in that religious education was included with the rest of the terrific educational experience.
I'm calling Bull Bush on that one for a variety of reasons,the BIG one being "Who says the parents are capable of training a parakeet,never mind giving a full quality education to a child?
Not to mention the loss of input that comes from meeting and talking with a different POV.
The children are subjected to the very same, if not more rigorous testing the public system children get. They receive the very same state testing as everyone. If the parents are not capable, just like any school system, they will be forced to improve the situation... Even if that means public school. The parents must retain accreditation just like a school teacher, or even more so. If they don't perform, believe me, the school system wants all that money those kids represent. So there is often intentional bias against the parents.
So obviously, it is working - And for the most part Home schooled children excel.
And who says they are not exposed to different opinions?
Yeah,causin de parents no eberry thang,huh? Pure,unadulterated Horse Hillary!
That doesn't even deserve a reply.
