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To: Khepera
Took my kids out of publick schools around 10 years ago and never regretted it.

Made my decision the night the principal had a special parents' meeting (scheduled on the same night a soccer signups and cheerleading tryouts, to minimize attendance by involved parents). He announced the grammar school would no longer give grades. Most of the audience agreed with him, which I thought strange until I realized half the attendees were guidance counselors and other administrators, who would actually benefit from the kids' failures. They talked about introducing "invented spelling", and "whole learning". When he held up the new math book, called "Math Their Way", I decided we were out of there. The kids have been doing great in Catholic school.

16 posted on 03/28/2002 6:32:16 PM PST by lds23
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To: lds23
My widowed daughter-in-law pulled the boys out of public school when they were in the second and fourth grade respectively. They had a much better, broader solid education than they could ever have had where they were. At least nobody was unwilling to discuss why both boys were in the honors program and the oldest failing because of being deliberately set to fail by his teacher. I use that term teacher very generously, with the afterthought that what goes around comes around.
21 posted on 03/28/2002 7:51:33 PM PST by footstomper
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