A topic was bought up on home schooling a few days ago and got locked down due to some name calling and spitting.
I really had a problem with one issue brought up, but when I typed my response and hit send the topic had been just locked down. So I'll voice my issue and with luck we can get through this without getting it locked down..... maybe not.
The subject was about kids going into kindergarten or 1st grade at a higher reading level or a more advance level due to a self drive or being taught at home. The repsonse from a couple of folks was that the kids further behind would "catch up" with the more advance kids. My opinion and belief; most kids do not "catch up". The more advance (pre-educated) kids fall to the level of the others. My belief and opinion is through experience with my 4 grown kids that went through the public school system, is the kids that need less help get less help. The teachers simply pay more attention to the kids that got no help from home. This is not an uncommon therory, many of the parents we spoke to throughout our kids education felt the same. Our kids would go into kindergarten able to read at a higher level, and by the time they reached second or third grade they were just "one of the pack". It turned out that the more advance kids would finish the assignment well ahead of some others and then be allowed to color or play, just be on their own.... a waste of education time.... and all the efforts of responsible parents go down the drain.
I don't blame teacher as much as I blame the administration, but the teachers due bear some of the responiblity.
JMO, easy now, let's have a conversation, not a path to being locked down.
Alan
I really had a problem with one issue brought up, but when I typed my response and hit send the topic had been just locked down. So I'll voice my issue and with luck we can get through this without getting it locked down..... maybe not.
The subject was about kids going into kindergarten or 1st grade at a higher reading level or a more advance level due to a self drive or being taught at home. The repsonse from a couple of folks was that the kids further behind would "catch up" with the more advance kids. My opinion and belief; most kids do not "catch up". The more advance (pre-educated) kids fall to the level of the others. My belief and opinion is through experience with my 4 grown kids that went through the public school system, is the kids that need less help get less help. The teachers simply pay more attention to the kids that got no help from home. This is not an uncommon therory, many of the parents we spoke to throughout our kids education felt the same. Our kids would go into kindergarten able to read at a higher level, and by the time they reached second or third grade they were just "one of the pack". It turned out that the more advance kids would finish the assignment well ahead of some others and then be allowed to color or play, just be on their own.... a waste of education time.... and all the efforts of responsible parents go down the drain.
I don't blame teacher as much as I blame the administration, but the teachers due bear some of the responiblity.
JMO, easy now, let's have a conversation, not a path to being locked down.
Alan