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10-28-2007, 09:54 PM
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Well, we live in a system with a good tax base, so we're not going to have an issue with the schools. They're great. Which is an advantage of living in the burbs I suppose. Even though Montgomery County has great schools, people still seem to send their kids to private schools. It's really popular here. Initially, I wanted to live in Center City which is an area in Philadelphia proper, but coming from the South, it was hard to picture living in a rowhouse or condo. Everything pretty much need renovation and if it didn't need to be renovated, it was about 600K or more. Much, much more than we can afford. The prices in New Jersey were worse. | ||
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10-29-2007, 01:25 AM
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I so want to live on the East Coast- the schools are better all around and the base for my online charter school I go through is there. Too bad the ex will never let me move that far.
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10-30-2007, 12:04 AM
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I don't do home school for my kids. But I think both are necessary and depend on your own situation. I do spend lots of time to teach my kids at home. In school, they spend lots of time drawing, playing and singing. They do learn there but not enough. They can't read, can't write and lack of basic knowledge and thinking ability. At home, I'll read with them, train their learning skill and bring up their interest. It's true you got to put lots of effort and patience to parent them. Last edited by jtee : 10-30-2007 at 01:09 AM. Reason: Removed link | ||
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10-30-2007, 07:02 AM
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agree. I plan to kinda homeschool Nichole for Pre-k. I just want to make sure she can read before going to kindergarten
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10-30-2007, 08:25 AM
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That's a great goal KT...we have the same plans. Bradley is 4 1/2 years old, and he can read a lot of words, but he's still a few months away from being able to read the more difficult words. I'm so proud of him when he sounds out the letters, and actually makes the word himself. They sell these cool flashcards with basic words. On one side they have pictures, and the other is just the word. We'll go through a few rounds with the picture, and then we'll do the other side with no picture. It took a few weeks, but he's almost got the whole package down without looking at the pics. | ||
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10-30-2007, 08:26 AM
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PS It's surprising how many other parents DON'T make that their goal. It's a lot of work too....so I can see how easy it would be to just assume the kid is going to learn it through the school system...but that's not what happens. | ||
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10-30-2007, 08:42 AM
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Nichole won't even start kindergartedn till almost 6 because of her b-day so there is no reason why she shouldn't be able to read before then. I agree more parents should make that their goal. I was talknig to some of the other ladies that work in our church nursery. Some of them send their kids to private school and others are public. Well we were talking about how much of teh learning to read early and such is the school (private usually learn earlier) and just parents who care. No one is going to spend a small fortune on private school that doens't care about their child's academic progress. (cept maybe movie star/ hollywood types)
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10-30-2007, 12:23 PM
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It was my goal also that my kids read before Kindergarten and we reached it. What is sad is that Isabella was the only kid in her class that could read and there were only a few in Josephine's class.
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10-30-2007, 12:33 PM
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I was amazed when my dd brought home some of her school papers from K. They were amtching shapes and colors, I almost died. She's way head of most of the kids in her class. I sent her to a private preschool for 2 yrs and by the end she was reading, writing, speaking spanish and a little french. Now she's in public school learning to match shapes and colors and count to 10. I couldn't believe that...she's learning things over that she already knew before she was 3. Seems so unfair
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10-30-2007, 12:40 PM
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It is unfair. I liked the way the special education classes did it because kids were matched with kids that were around their level and that is how a class was formed. Isabella was in the special education classes because of her hearing with other kids who intellectually were fine or even ahead but had problems with speech or something similar. They taught them to learn with their disability and then mainstreamed them but they were taught the same cirriculum so they wouldn't be behind. Isabella was the only girl in her class.
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