A Place For Your Gifted Child
When you recognize that your child is gifted in some particular area of talent or intellect, getting the school system to recognize that special ability can be a challenge. For the most part public schools are designed to accommodate the “normal” range of children. Because it’ a legal requirement not only that you send your child to school but that the state provides public schools to meet that need, most of the children in public school are neither gifted nor special needs.
A Place For Your Gifted Child - 727 words
A Place Where You Cannot Protect Your Child
There are a lot of reasons that parents consider pulling their kids out of public schools and putting them in private institutions. The quality of education and lower teacher to student ratios often are sited. Private schools can do better with special needs or working with students with special talents as well. But by far the biggest reason for the exodus from public schools is the issue of drugs and violence in public school settings.
A Place Where You Cannot Protect Your Child - 638 words
Becoming A Snob
When you talk to a lot of parents, its amazing how many consider the public school system to be the only option for getting a quality education for their children. It seems that this limited view of education would have fallen by the wayside by now with so many options for getting your kids through school. But that is how effective the government sponsored public schools have been at maintaining the myth that they are the only way to go and that public school is the end all and be all of education for kids like yours and mine.
Becoming A Snob - 731 words
Big Schools Big Programs
Comparing the good things that can be offered between school programs can get difficult. Picking a school for your kids isn’t as cut and dried as it was when we were young. Only a few decades ago, the public school system was the only alternative to get an education for children and since having our kids in school is mandated by law, that was that.
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Changing Schools From Your Child’s Perspective
There is one thing that is a bit strange about the process we, go through to pick the right school for our children. Parents often develop a very systematic evaluation system for picking a school which weighs the academic resources of the school, the abilities of the teachers, the schools physical plant and how classes are organized. Often the schools “mission statement” is taken into account on the theory that if the school was founded on certain basic principles, you should see those principles in action at the school.
Changing Schools From Your Child’s Perspective - 650 words
God And School
It has not always been a problem to have a religious faith and still attend public school. But in some ways, that task has gotten more difficult in the last few years. Now people of faith are used to living in a world where there are a lot of different religious points of view. That leads to conflict, discussion and interaction between peoples of various belief systems and that is healthy.
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Greatness And Public School
Depending on the size of your community the number of kids who might be in public school can vary from hundreds to thousands. There has been a lot of discussion about whether the government should even be involved in funding public schools. That is a political discussion. But the real question is whether your child will achieve his or her maximum potential in a public setting with thousands of other kids.’
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Hype Versus Reality In Private Schools
Private schools function from an entirely different economic base than public schools. Because private schools succeed or fail based on the number of families who are paying tuition, many of the laws of marketing and merchandising apply. That is why you might even see commercials on television for a private school which you would never see for their counterparts in the public school arena.
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Interviewing Schools
You are an adult. And when adults make big decisions in life, they have good reasons. And deciding whether to send your child to a private school and which private school to pick is a big decision. So the logical and organized way to go about finding out whether the move is a good one and what private school to pick, the adult thing to do is make a list of things you require of a private school and turn that list into your “interview questions” that you will use when you go from school to school looking for the perfect place for your child.
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Money And Education
We like to think of public education of our children as a pure science that is populated by people who are above the humdrum worries of life and live only for the joy of filling young minds with truth. But like anything else, schools do well or poorly largely driven by money. Now one of the justifications for government funding of schools is you take out of the educational process any graft or influence peddling by private interests. In theory if corporate interests or even wealthy individuals can influence the schools because of wealth, they could also dictate the curriculum and the “slant” the lessons might take and as such put a spin on the truth because the schools become dependent on the funding source.
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On Not Letting School Administrators Push You Around
If you have found yourself outraged, frustrated and feeling a little paranoid about guiding how your child is educated in public school, don’t be surprised because you are not alone. In fact, the only parents that don’t have this sensation are the ones who send their kids blindly off to public school with little concern about what is being taught there and accept the curriculum without question because it’s “what they are teaching at school.”
On Not Letting School Administrators Push You Around - 643 words
Protecting Your Child’s Love Of Learning
Sometimes for parents who see their children come home from public school angry and antagonistic to school work and learning, we naturally assume that it is against the nature of a child to want to learn anything. But if you think back to the years before you sent your little one off to school, the opposite was the case. As an infant, your child was a virtually learning machine and he or she seemed to live and breathe learning new things. That natural curiosity and desire to find out more about the world was as deeply a part of your little one’s being as the desire for food and love.
Protecting Your Child’s Love Of Learning - 744 words
Public School And Society
In our social system, we often just take for granted that the way our educational system set up is the way it should be without question. But if you look at society across the ages, turning your children over to strangers without question to educate them in ways that are not your own is far from the normal way most societies bring their young up to adult level of knowledge and skill.
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Reading, Writing And Arithmetic
There seem to be a lot of reasons for sending your child to public school depending on who you talk to. From the kid’s perspective, school is a chance to get out of the house and maybe have some fun with friends. And one of the values of sending a child to a social setting for school rather than going the home school route is it gives your child the chance to develop social skills which are almost as valuable as the academics.
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Special Schools For Special Kids
If you are a parent of a special needs child, you know something that the public schools either don’t know or they refuse to recognize. And that is any special need can be accommodated and worked around and your child is just as capable of excellence on an even playing field with any other child if his or her limitation is taken out of the picture.
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Taking Control Of Moral Education
People remove their children from public school and move to private schools for a lot of reasons. For one thing, the contract you have with a private school is in every way different than your relationship with public school. Because you pick your private school, the schools in your area are in competition for your “business”. That means they work for you and they are responsible to live up to their promises to you when you pay them to give your child an education.
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Teaching Subjects Or Teaching Students
Teaching school is as much a calling as it is a job. And in fact when you review the teachers at the school where your child will be going, you will notice that the good ones are as much missionaries with a zeal for guiding young minds as they are people who come to work to perform a function. But there can be no question that what makes any school great whether it’s the most expensive private school in town or a public school with overcrowded classes is the quality of the teachers who will be with your child for hours each and every day.
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The Dilemma Of Finding A Good Christian School
Christian people often feel a bit isolated in society. And for a Christian family, the decision about how to raise your children to be strong in the faith but still able to function in a world full of people of many religious views is a constant challenge. Probably one of the biggest decisions you may have to make that will have far ranging implications on the way your kids interact with the world and how they view their faith is whether to let them go to public school or take the step of putting them in a quality Christian private school where they can exercise their faith openly and without fear of ridicule or limitations.
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The Government Wants Private Schools To Go Away
When you are trying to make an objective decision about whether to make the change of putting your child in private school versus keeping them in public school, you need objective advice. So naturally you want to turn to objective leaders in the area of child and adolescent education to give you that balanced viewpoint that will help you make a wise choice for your child. Private school is expensive so you want to make sure that if you go that route, you are doing the right thing for your child and the better education and school experience will be worth the money.
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The Legalized Abduction Of Children
It’s almost inconceivable but it happens to every single family in the country every day. You often reflect that one of your biggest jobs as a mom and dad is to protect your sweet child so she grows strong and never loses her love of life and learning. So the very idea that your child could be abducted and taken to some far away building is horrifying. And not only that but it is an abduction that you must sit by and witness because you are required by law to hand over your children or fear stiff penalties. In fact, you are required by law to pay extra taxes to support the livelihoods of the abductors who steal your child away.
The Legalized Abduction Of Children - 749 words
The Rights Of Parents
Sometimes it seems that once you drop your children off at the door of the school that your rights as parents seem to disappear. This is one of the most disturbing things about sending your child off to school and to public school in particular. In many subtle ways, the school seems to send the message to you that you should go home and bake cookies and not meddle in what is going on in that school. And many parents just blindly accept that implied relationship as long as the children come home relatively happy and seem to be passing so they can move on to the next grade.
The Rights Of Parents - 750 words
They Want To Drug Your Child!
Anyone who has an interest in what is going on in the world of children’s health has noticed the explosion of medications and diagnosis of children with ADD, ADHD, Asperger syndrome or Autism. Does is strike you as strange that all of a sudden a huge percentage of otherwise normal and healthy children are being diagnosed with these dire diseases and schools and their associated medical counterparts are prescribing all manner of strange sounding drugs to “fix” these problems?
They Want To Drug Your Child! - 654 words
When Fear Is A Part Of Life At School
You can probably think back on some of your favorite classes when you was growing up and going to school. And when you think back fondly on that class, how would you describe the atmosphere of the class and the motivation system that was used by the school and by the administration to get you to achieve and excel? The odds are if that class is one you remember as inspirational and one of the favorite times you had in school, the relationship with the teacher was relaxed, creative and affectionate. And the one emotion that you no doubt never felt in that classroom was fear.
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When Schools Turn Into Spys
What do you pay the school to do for your child? You pay the school to educate your child. You pay them to teach them the fundamental skills in life such as mathematics, history, language, logical thinking, public speaking, government and civic responsibility and perhaps in the arts as well. Of course, when it comes to public schools, we don’t pay them directly. But you pay taxes that eventually goes toward keeping the schools operational and paying the administrators and teachers.
When Schools Turn Into Spys - 630 words
Who Holds The Schools Accountable?
Perhaps the biggest difference between public and private school is the system of accountability. Children know all about being held accountable. Not long after they leave behind infancy, children learn that virtually everybody is going to hold them accountable for something or another in almost every situation they will be in. And they become little experts at meeting the expectations of adults, even if it’s just surface fulfillment of the requirements and not a genuine accountability.
Who Holds The Schools Accountable? - 749 words
Why Private School For Your Child?
There are notable differences in what private schools offer from the public school environment. So when you begin that evaluation process, it’s important that you know what you are looking for in a school before you make the investment in putting your youngster into a private institution. Very often private schools draw new students based on local reputation or because you may know a lot of kids of your friends who go there. Or perhaps your child wants to go to a particular private school to be with specific peers. And while putting your son or daughter in a school where he or she will have a strong support group is a valid consideration, it is not the only consideration.
Why Private School For Your Child? - 720 words