public school girl dramatically increases reading level first semester

(She's one of my kids.)

Public school boy makes great strides in understanding mathematical abstraction and the use of variables.

(He's one of my kids too.)

Public school boy wins National Merit Scholarship.

(Actually, that was me, 1986.)

:)

(ed. for clunkiness)

heres a public school kid who was a National Merit Semi-Finalist, though that doesn't amount to a hill of dog shit :D

grades three days ago
100-p.e
100-orchestra
98-language
97-science
96-history
86-math

and my son has math tutoring. i just love this school.

my second grader straight a's and he has had tutoring for his handwriting. small motor skills challenging for him. i love this school

they do there best, no child is left behind.

What would their be to lose?

no messing around. they reward the students that put out, excel. they do it visibly. a lot of parents dont like that. and..... they wont take a parent making excuses for child. lol. no bullying, no being ugly,..... gonna get ass in trouble. strict school. my kids can do strict, and my oldest need those rules, small framed, glasses, intellectual. but a lot of parents have issue with the strictness and demands on their kids. my oldest huge lesson this fall. didnt make gifted. told him everywhere else was too easy, here, they dont reward you with potential, rewarded for what you put out. dont get gifted it is because he chose not to put in the work, to get the reward. his choice.

you know, a lot of parents wouldnt want their kid tutored after school. especially if he is getting good grades, but even if the kid isnt getting good grades. for different reasons.

is usually very WEIRD..... and not in a good way.

I'd never send one of my kids to private school.

Redstone

an interesting time. it worked well for us and our situation. until it didnt anymore and i took kids to public.

I have only had one home schooled kid from a liberal environment.... he was weird too, but in a very good, artsy-fartsy way.

i thought about homeschooling for a while. jsut thought of it though. lol lol. a zillion reasons not to, but ultimately i decided academically the kids would suffer.

it was pretty much just like a public school.

BUT Some kids in my hood graduated from a fundie academy and they have always had the most fucked up lives.... their education bore no resemblance to reality.

+++ Becomes National Merit Scholar
+++ Wins full-ride academic Scholarship to Major University
+++ Graduates Magna Cum Laude
+++ Tapped for Phi Betta Kappa
+++ Earns Masters Degree (May '06)

Pretty good for a "hick" school in Mid-Wisconsin huh?

btw: that's my son.

:toast:

Sounds like you have one of those good public schools...

Just got back from my parent/teacher conference. What a load of crap.
My daughter is in 4th grade. In Language Arts she has had 9 writing assignments since September (about 1 a week) and they are returned with spelling and grammatical errors intact. When I questioned her teacher, she said she doesn't read them all and has peers grade them.

I told her I understood that there were budget constraints, to which she answered, "Oh, no this is a state-of-the-art teaching technique," and proceeded to attempt to snow me by laying fat binders of academic educationese in front of me.

I'm furious. She should be fired, but thanks to opponents of Schwarzenegger's Prop 74 here in CA (the supposed "liberal" position) she can hide comfortably among the other lame-ass teachers.

:grr:

I teach in a chronically "needs improvement" school in downtown Atlanta. The girl I mentioned in the OP came to me last year in 7th grade reading on a preprimer level. She's reading third grade level material now.

great work. You sound like one of the good ones, who actually cares about giving kids the best education possible.

I'm afraid I'm very anti-union on the tenure issue. Good teachers should never have to worry about tenure.

Scores 365 on the GED without trying very hard.

That was me

Public School is great, but not for everyone.

not make america smarter. How else can the fascists control the masses?