Public schools in your area don't have high income earners? Bullying happens everywhere, sadly. Everyone has their reasoning but when people give long explanations to show reasons aren't race but class....I don't know, it is off, at best, to me.
I don't know why I'm bothering with this, as I am 100% confident and happy with our decision and don't really care how others perceive my actions. I guess it just bugs me that this board seems to think you must be doing something wrong if you don't use public school.
I just got here, but I think you're doing something wrong if you assume the schools are full of useless parents and choose your kid's school for how it benefits your career. But whatever.
(Be be it known I am strongly against all private schools and STEM-focused education. But that's not what raised my eyebrows here. It was the openly classist assumptions.)
Now I just want to brag about another awesome thing. The K teacher was showing us the range of books get kids were reading, but then she told us about one child she didn't think would get it by the end of the year (this was late January).
She was already talking to the first grade teacher to come up with a plan/curriculum for that student to get caught up by the end of first. Along with giving the parent suggestions for summer activities.
I thought that was great, and just doesn't seem feasible with public schools just due to size and turnover.
I promise, I'm not a paid shill for this school!
Why would that not be possible in a public school? Isn't that what teachers do? It just doesn't sound out of the ordinary from what I hear from friends.
Eta: I see nothing wrong with private, just to be clear. As for your other post, it makes me realize how lucky we are to live in our district because thosw programs are at our public schools. But I get not everyone has that. Of ourselves our secular private schools are like 30 not 11k
Because at a public school with more than one class per grade level you likely don't know yet who the student's teacher is next year.
Why would that not be possible in a public school? Isn't that what teachers do? It just doesn't sound out of the ordinary from what I hear from friends.
Eta: I see nothing wrong with private, just to be clear. As for your other post, it makes me realize how lucky we are to live in our district because thosw programs are at our public schools. But I get not everyone has that. Of ourselves our secular private schools are like 30 not 11k
Because at a public school with more than one class per grade level you likely don't know yet who the student's teacher is next year.
I teach at a title one HS, and we use data every single year to tailor our curriculum to the students coming in. We have summer hours to do this, but even if we didn't, we would still do this in my department. Data driven intrusion is HUGE right now, whether it be private or public.
Why would that not be possible in a public school? Isn't that what teachers do? It just doesn't sound out of the ordinary from what I hear from friends.
Eta: I see nothing wrong with private, just to be clear. As for your other post, it makes me realize how lucky we are to live in our district because thosw programs are at our public schools. But I get not everyone has that. Of ourselves our secular private schools are like 30 not 11k
Because at a public school with more than one class per grade level you likely don't know yet who the student's teacher is next year.
Ah ok that makes sense. But don't teachers talk once they find out who their kids are? At least I assumed they did!
Because at a public school with more than one class per grade level you likely don't know yet who the student's teacher is next year.
I teach at a title one HS, and we use data every single year to tailor our curriculum to the students coming in. We have summer hours to do this, but even if we didn't, we would still do this in my department. Data driven intrusion is HUGE right now, whether it be private or public.
That is awesome that your district is willing to spend money that way. I also teach at a title one high school (in a large, urban district) and I won't see my list of students until maybe the week before school starts, if I'm lucky.
We don't get our classlists until two days before school, but we have the cohort information.
Yeah I mean I guess I don't see a difference between knowing 6 months ahead of time or two days, either way the teacher knows how to adjust their curriculum for the kid.
I guess I am wary of super small schools with only one class per grade level. DHs cousin goes to one and had a horrible experience with bullying and there was no way for her to escape because there was literally no one else for her to be friends with. It broke my heart.
We don't get our classlists until two days before school, but we have the cohort information.
I don't see how that helps. If there is a class of three or four hundred kids, the range of needs will vary so much you might as well have no information. Also what kind of data are you talking about? With yearly testing gone in favor of the SBAC in CA there is no yearly data that is collected (unless your district or school is requiring or creating its own assessments).
We don't get our classlists until two days before school, but we have the cohort information.
Yeah I mean I guess I don't see a difference between knowing 6 months ahead of time or two days, either way the teacher knows how to adjust their curriculum for the kid.
I guess I am wary of super small schools with only one class per grade level. DHs cousin goes to one and had a horrible experience with bullying and there was no way for her to escape because there was literally no one else for her to be friends with. It broke my heart.
I went to a small, private school with one class per grade level. I was not a victim of bullying but I can see what you are getting at. The issue I had was that there were fewer resources for differentiation. I needed to be challenged more and I wasn't. Kids at the local public school would have been moved into an advanced or higher level math class and I was not. My parents were more concerned about a small community and Catholic instruction.
We don't get our classlists until two days before school, but we have the cohort information.
I don't see how that helps. If there is a class of three or four hundred kids, the range of needs will vary so much you might as well have no information. Also what kind of data are you talking about? With yearly testing gone in favor of the SBAC in CA there is no yearly data that is collected (unless your district or school is requiring or creating its own assessments).
What data don't we have?? Income, attendance, referrals, esl, ieps, state test scores(which is not something we use in our department), we have meetings with the middle school about successes and pitfalls, scores for the year, AIMSweb data, and the 8th grade teachers send writing samples. It is not a perfect system, but we are given a wealth of information if we ask for it. We also meet as a department monthly, with other teachers monthly, and we have cohort tracking meeting monthly. The discussion about curriculum does not stop in September. I have not taught the same thing the same way twice in 5 years(I have only been teaching 10).
I almost wish I had a kid, for the sole purpose of keeping him/her in regular school in a regular district in a diverse neighborhood so I could purposefully avoid shit like this.
It's really easy to be a perfect parent when you don't have a kid.
LOL. For the record, my issue with your comments is solely based on the one aspect that's focused on you and your networking opportunities, having nothing to do with your kid or my lack thereof. If you had focused your comments and responses on the reasons this school is best for your kid, I wouldn't have said a word. I think it's a stretch to claim a school is best for your kid because there are parents in your industries who make more than you that your can network with.
Post by sugarglider on May 8, 2016 10:07:29 GMT -5
Hmm. I feel like this is why my friends from HS who are doctors are moving back to our crappy little IN hometown. We all went to public schools for K-12, and all 9 of us have ended up in fantastic careers. Same for a number of our other classmates. Of course, the only career that can be done to the same degree in our hometown is medicine.
Bf went to private school his whole life, but I just assumed I'd send kids to public school bc I went and wasn't at a disadvantage as far as I can tell.
The neighborhood I would like to live in here is currently kinda artsy, but has a history of drugs, gangs, and prostitution (trafficking). As usual, I struggle with gentrification. You move into a diverse neighborhood for the culture, food, art. But by cities of moving there, you chip away at the diversity. A neighborhood becomes safer, and then fewer people who made it a neighborhood can afford to live there.
We don't get our classlists until two days before school, but we have the cohort information.
I don't see how that helps. If there is a class of three or four hundred kids, the range of needs will vary so much you might as well have no information. Also what kind of data are you talking about? With yearly testing gone in favor of the SBAC in CA there is no yearly data that is collected (unless your district or school is requiring or creating its own assessments).
Um... what?
I feel like this whole comment completely misses the point that there are numerous actual humans who interact with these kids on a daily basis. I have about 140 sixth grade science students and I can tell you which ones are above grade level, which ones need reading help, which ones need math help, which ones are on IEPs and 504s, which ones have a tendency to be tune out and need extra encouragement. Like other teachers, I get to know these kids really well over the course of the year. It's very apparent which kids are going to need extra supports, and we discuss strategies to help them all.the.time in grade level teams and informally before and after school.
The idea that without yearly standardize testing, we can't possibly know how to support our kids is completely off base.