Parents of kids on IEPs, how are you finding privates that will take your kid? The only ones I'm aware of are SN specific.
DD1 has an IEP and she attended private Catholic school. They have been really great about adapting to her needs and making accommodations. I'm sure it is school specific, but we have been really happy.
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Our local elementary school is very good. We are currently debating whether to send DD2 to the public Spanish Immersion Kindergarten program or send her to the same school DD1 attends. Both are great options. We have a year to decide and one factor will be where we send DD1 for high school. I can't figure out how we will spend $30,000+ in tuition.
DS will attend private preschool too. We have no public option, but we are really in love with the preschool DD2 attends so we would chose it anyway.
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Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Jan 26, 2015 18:56:10 GMT -5
Public. Our schools around here are top notch anyway and fuck a bunch of tuition. Also the only private schools in the area are Catholic and I'm just barely on this side of Episcopalian (as opposed to atheist or agnostic).
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I homeschooled my younger ones for a year, put them in public. I am considering homeschooling again, if it fits the needs of them(or any of them). I would most likely do all public for high school because there are so many options now with charter schools, magnet schools, tech schools, STEM, IB, etc. Things that would be out of my league teaching. My DD1 went to a tech school half days her last 2 yrs of high school (what was considered vo-tech when I grew up) and studied nursing and environmental science resource. She graduated with 9 college credits just from the classes and went half days her senior year. If she had done all 3 years of the nursing/health, she could have graduated high school as a CNA and/or medical assistant.
We are planning on homeschooling all the way through. We will utilize some online schooling options as each child reaches 6th grade.
I am a former private school teacher. I saw the good, the bad, and the ugly of private and public schools. I can do as a good of a job if not better. We are secular so there is not a religious component to it.
I was going to ask who picked homeschool just out of curiosity.
I'm very curious about non-secular homeschoolers. What is your biggest reason to not want either public or private school for your kid(s)? Do you have an age limit on this? What if you and one of your kids just butts heads and authority for awhile? Do you think there is any value in a high school education outside the house or sharing teaching curriculum with other people who also homeschool and might have a different background? Is your DH also planning to do some of the teaching or is he still working full-time?
I have been trying to answer all day but the kids' lessons required my attention and then I had a few tutoring clients.
My DH and I do not believe that the government should be in the business of educating children. The standardized test environment does not foster a love of learning, thinking outside the norm, and really isn't the place we want our children to be.
We have a lovely group of friends who all home school for non religious reasons. Most of them because of the number of hours spent on preparing for and taking tests.
My DH helps. He was in charge of the mealworm experiment set up on Saturday. Most of what they learn from him are real world applications, Pythagoreum theorem applied to the pitch of a playhouse roof they were building.
The kids and I don't always get along. There are power struggles. I expect more as the oldest just turned 12. Our house is a good example of how to work through life problems and relationships with others. It really is a whole lifestyle though. You have to be all in because school never ends, we are learning together all the time.
My kids are in public and we are pleased so far. I haven't met anyone in our area that chose to do private, and if they did it would be a bit of a hike to get there. The better private options are all out of county. Money makes this discussion rather pointless for us. We can't afford private schools, and mentally there is no way I could handle homeschooling my crew.
ETA: the only thing I will miss are the uniforms. i would love for our public to go to uniforms but only black kids need those, so we wont ever
I went all private, and my kids are all public. I do love me some uniforms, though. I think all school children should have to wear uniforms. They look so much crisper and polished than street clothes.
Post by Dumbledork on Jan 26, 2015 21:40:21 GMT -5
DD attends a choice school. Public, but with a special focus.
We had to apply, I have to drive her to school because we're technically not in that school's bus zone, and we have to confirm yearly that she'll continue to attend.
This school's special focus is Mandarin Chinese. She has a 30 minute English class and her secondary classes (art, music, social studies) are in English, but the rest of her day and learning is done in Chinese. She's supposed to be fluent in it by 3rd grade. It's an awesome, awesome school.
If this school hadn't been a decent fit, I was also looking at a Spanish immersion choice school and a dance/theater/art charter school. The regular public schools here are awful.
I'd certainly prefer public. Where we are now is a good school district, no need to send them to private. If we move to a place that doesn't have good schools, we will have to suck up the costs of private, I think.
Hmm, we are also in Fayetteville and the schools our daughter would have attended were awful. It's my general understanding that most of the public schools here are terrible.
Public. One of the reasons we live here is because of the city's commitment to building a diverse, progressive community, and we are one of the few cities in the area that continuously supports its schools.
Post by irishbride2 on Jan 26, 2015 21:59:17 GMT -5
I did not read the responses.
There are no absolutes. There are no broad generalizations that apply to all private or all public. Every city/district/state/neighborhood is different.
Where we live, public is not a good option. And since I teach at the best private school locally, my kids will go there as well.
I fucking hate uniforms. Twice the laundry, twice the clothing budget.
no way! My kids just play in uniforms until bed. No way are they changing. Thats too much effort, lol. Maybe when they are older. But for now, it adds zero to my laundry.
And if anything it saves money because the uniforms all looks the same so we can get away with only have 3 or 4...where as if she wore different clothes daily I would need more variety.
We moved here too late (3rd grade) for most of the magnet programs we would have been interested in for dd. I think she was under-challenged, but she found friends and teachers she really loved. She's a sophomore now and although I don't know that she's accomplished everything she could if she had some platonic ideal of education, but she's bright, engaged and taking high level classes. There was nothing to navigate, we just muddled through what was offered, and it's turned out fine. I think this is the case for most kids in public schools, even ones that are just okay.
With ds, we got him into a Spanish immersion magnet. Still public schools, actually his school shares a building with an English-speaking school. Classes are crowded (30 kids in a class, and there's still a long waiting list), but I don't feel like he's lost. With only one teacher they rely a lot on parent volunteers, but he's learning. It's only kindergarten so I have no idea how it'll turn out, but I'm excited by the potential. There was an application and then a lottery, nothing too complicated.
My kids are in (6th and 4th) grade are in private school and will be through 12th grade. I like the private HS options better than even the really good public HS options so that is a huge reason why they are in private school. It's harder to get into private HS without coming from a private elementary/middle school and there are very limited spots if you try to enroll in middle school to have a better shot at HS. In fact I just heard there is one spot at our school for 6th grade next year.
Post by schitzengiggles on Jan 26, 2015 22:54:33 GMT -5
Definitely public. Short of religious reasons or being in a random bad district, I don't see why people here would spend so much $ on private school when we live in a state with overall excellent public education.
Now if I lived somewhere this wasn't the case, that's different.
I'd certainly prefer public. Where we are now is a good school district, no need to send them to private. If we move to a place that doesn't have good schools, we will have to suck up the costs of private, I think.
Hmm, we are also in Fayetteville and the schools our daughter would have attended were awful. It's my general understanding that most of the public schools here are terrible.
I work in Fayetteville, but don't live there. When we were considering Fayetteville, the only school districts I know of being good are the Jack Britt school district and the Terry Sandford one is ok. Jack Britt is really highly rated on Great Schools. But it's huge, like 3000 kids. My school was more like 800 kids, so I find that size school a little intimidating. The thing I don't like about private schools around here is that as far as I can tell, they are all very Christian. We are also Christian, but there are different "brands" of Christian.
I fucking hate uniforms. Twice the laundry, twice the clothing budget.
no way! My kids just play in uniforms until bed. No way are they changing. Thats too much effort, lol. Maybe when they are older. But for now, it adds zero to my laundry.
And if anything it saves money because the uniforms all looks the same so we can get away with only have 3 or 4...where as if she wore different clothes daily I would need more variety.
I love uniforms. My kid has worn the same shirts since K and is now in 2nd grade. They are finally getting small, I bought them a touch big. I have 3 or 4 sets. He barely has any other clothes since he doesn't need them except for weekends. Saves me a ton of money! He never changes after school.
Fact. My tinfoil hat theory is that it's done on purpose so women can't work. I secretly seethe every time they get lumped in with the oh-so-progressive Scandinavian countries and France because no.
This is what made me say eff that to our desire to use cantonal schools for M at some point. Although given the extreme lack of daycares and the fact that people come out and say that there is no reason for more because children should be home with their mothers makes me think your theory is not so very tinfoil hat.