I used to live in an apartment behind Rosati-Kain Catholic School in St Louis.
Would fill in once in a while for a class if a teacher, usually a Sister, was ill.
Great school!
http://rosati-kain.org/
Posted on 01/26/2018 5:20:14 PM PST by huckfillary
Done right, home schooling is a very low-cost, personalized educational option, conducted in a safe, non-violent environment. Statistics consistently indicate that home-schooled students excel in higher education and go on to lead functional, productive lives.
There are, of course, a number of life’s little inconveniences and impediments that operate against successful home-schooling. First, the parent-child chemistry has to be there. Many parents have told me that it simply would not work for their Matthew or Emily. Home-schooling my own son would have been the ultimate test of my patience. Both parties have to be committed and emotionally in-sync with the program.
Secondly, you all but have to have one fulltime stay-at-home parent. In today’s world, two-income households are pretty much the norm. A work-at-home parent with a flexible schedule or a parent who works in the evenings could also make home schooling a viable option. A private tutor is also an option, but only if you’re Paul McCartney.
Bear in mind, if you home-school your child through the elementary-school years, and decide to send her to a standard high school, be prepared for “culture shock.” It may take a while, if ever, for the child to acclimate to an institutionalized setting. Fixed class schedules, lunches, etc., may not sit well with a child used to the more flexible home setting; not to mention the teasing, the bullying, guns, knives, and drugs, if you opt for public high school. It’s all part of the governmental education package. Students are shocked to learn that pleasing your mother is a lot easier than pleasing your peers.
But if you are looking for a way to get your child out of the toxic, dumbed-down, PC, Common Core learning environment, home schooling may be something to consider. Home schooling isn’t for everybody, but public school isn’t for anybody.
We are committed to Catholic schools
I used to live in an apartment behind Rosati-Kain Catholic School in St Louis.
Would fill in once in a while for a class if a teacher, usually a Sister, was ill.
Great school!
http://rosati-kain.org/
Nice! Rosati is a beautiful school but my wife is a St Joe alum so I think she’s already made that decision for our daughter!
I had the honor of escorting the rep from Rosati-Kain to the Officers Luncheon my senior year in high school. 1971 it was, just a few years after all the dinosaurs had died:-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
I’m sure that’s a fine school as well.
God speed to your daughter, I’m glad she is not in public school..shudder.
Lol, I was in those parts in the mid to late 70s.
I graduated from CBC in 71, went off to college at Warrensburg, MO and moved to Kansas City, KS in 76.
Been here in KCK ever since.
Did you ever go to a place called Cyrano’s? It was a few blocks east of CBC on Clayton Rd IIRC.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
I take issue with the idea that it’s easier to please your peers than your mother.
Your mother loves you. She is already overall pleased.
To please your peers you often have to bully, get bullied, dumb down, or engage in lousy behavior.
So not so much. It may be easier to please your mother than a really strict teacher.
If your kids are college bound they will eventually hit the strict schedules etc that you warn about for high school. Being mature young adults they will manage fine.
Four down one to go. My kids are frikkin brilliant.
While it is appropriate to write off many urban schools, I deeply dislike the idea of conservatives writing off all public schools. "Public school" is not a monolithic entity to be rejected by all decent people. The problem is that when conservatives refuse to participate as teachers, we abandon the majority of the next generation to a constant drumbeat of indoctrination from America's enemies. We need to be in there, fighting for the hearts and minds of the next generation.
Our oldest went through private Christian education pre-K - high school. The next followed along but wanted to attend “real school” his junior year. So he switched to public school his junior year and lasted 5 days. The Amish girls bullied him in the cafeteria. I was like, that’s it. And he felt the same, too. He graduated from private Christian school. The last kid was home schooled K-graduation and is a freshman at a well known state college. If I had it to do all over again I would have home schooled all three.
I have to disagree with the author. Government schools offer a very valuable education on the seamier sides of our culture. Going to the LA Unified School district taught me a lot of valuable life lessons. For example, I learned about:
- the operation and management of black markets.
- educational novelty.
- the correct height for fences surrounding an institutional facility.
- black racism directed at whites.
-how long you can hold off going to the bathroom (to avoid getting jumped by gangs).
-the benefits of truancy.
-how busing kids from ghettoes to middle class areas made school a much more exciting experience.
-how to study in spite of noise.
Great experience if you want your kid to grow up to be a gangsta.
I Don’t remember Cyranos, I was more of a White Castle and London & Sons Winghouse kind of guy :-)
I lived in the the Chase Park Plaza/Barnes Hospital/Wash Univ Med School area...right by the Park.
Bicycled around the 4 mile bike trail in Forest Park almost every day.
St Louis was great back then, not so much today :-/
It’s a shame but some children will need to be institutionalized for their schooling.
We need orphanages, too, but no one is claiming it is the best or most natural way to rear a child.
Re: hearts an minds
The best way to do that is to first get your own kids out of the government schools and second, to lobby for vouchers, tax credits, and charters so that other children can escape, too.
Having had a ...very enriching.... experience thanks to the Los Angeles Unified School District (see post 12), I must disagree. There is a difference between abandoning children, which is something we should never do, and abandoning the government schools.
We shouldn’t just abandon government schools. We should bulldoze them and salt the ground they stand on.
The fix for educational ills is to end this welfare paradigm and privatize education in its entirety with provision made to homeschool or provide charity based education for kids who can’t afford tuition.
Somewhere north of 85% of American kids are put in government institutions. Many of whom put there by parents who know better and can afford better. We aren’t going to fix that, but we can nibble around the edges with private schools, charity, and home education.
Note that I wrote off urban schools (LAUSD included to a large extent). I want us teaching in schools that can be saved.
But I have seen some cases where it has been Done Wrong (or Not Done, which is the worst of all), and I am a strong advocate for home schooling.
It can be done wrong, especially when one fails after three or four years, then sends the poor object of his/her/their fantasy back into public education.
So, man, if you are going to undertake it, finish it with the advice, help, and criticism of fellow participants. At some point, the child will become your teacher, given the right direction.
I am a public school teacher. Most of the teachers that I work with are conservatives as well. Granted, I teach in a free state (Texas), and in a rural community. We don’t use Common Core. Is it perfect? Of course not. Neither is it inherently bad just because it is “public school.”
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