still learning said:
Hello, There are two girls in our kempo class who were home school. They were on a computor home school program till eight grade.
Than they attended High school, and found it behind what they knew. This is one of those case's where studing at home was better than the education programs offer by the State of Hawaii,schools They are very self-discipline and "A" students in 10th and 11 grade today.
For some people homeschool works; for many, it doesn't, such as for students whose parents are themselves not well educated, for students with disabilities of all types, for students whose parent(s) work, for students who want to learn something their parents can't teach (anything from a foreign language to physics to a musical instrument, etc.), for students who want to participate in an activity that requires more than a few students (team sports, band/orchestra, debate, art, choir, shop, etc.), and so on.
still learning said:
For some kids this is answer...for others...ARMY? or MacDonalds?
Private schools are often better - but it's not just the smaller class sizes. By their very nature, private and parochial schools (which generally have larger class sizes, fewer resources, and teachers who are paid less than public school teachers) have a preselected sample of students: students whose parents cared enough about education to send them to a private or parochial school. In addition, private and parochial schools can select their students, through entrance exams, by refusing to allow students with behavior problems to attend, by refusing to take students with disabilities or by not providing those students the services they need to be successful - all things that public schools have no options about. Public schools take
everyone - regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic status, disability, language spoken in the home, citizenship or the lack thereof, with or without a home address, behavior (yes, a very few students are expelled - but
very few, and it's not permanent in many places), and so on.
still learning said:
Private schools are usually better and smaller classes and they learn alot more plus better prepare for College.
Not every student is suited to college - certainly, all students deserve to be taught the reading, writing, math, and thinking skills that will allow them to learn anything they need, or want, to know throughout their lives - but college is not an appropriate destination for all students, and we do a disservice to students who are not college-bound by insisting that they take college-prep classes to graduate high school. Vocational education, sadly, is becoming less common as the push for higher educational standards is forced on all students, appropriate or not; this push is one of the reasons why the dropout rate continues to rise. For a significant block of students, vocational education is the ideal: for technology-related jobs, for the service industry (electricians, plumbers, hair dressers, child-care workers, hotel and restaurant staff, medical assistants, etc.), for skilled white-collar jobs (transcriptionists of all varieties, clerks, etc.), for skilled manual labor (construction workers, carpenters, draftsmen, etc.), and so on. We owe an appropriate education to non-college bound students as well as college-bound; instead, in the societal focus on the college-bound, those who are not are increasingly driven into dropping out instead of getting the job training once available in the schools.
still learning said:
We only have one chance to give our children the best education we can find. Once grown....stay stupid unless they go back? .....Aloha
I disagree. I know too many people who are simply not suited to formal education for one reason or another - too many successful people. In addition, uneducated and stupid are not the same thing.
