MaggieD
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While these schools enable truly individualized learning and flexibility in pace, schedule and learning styles, they also come with the structure, administrative support, oversight, accountability, and standards tests associated with all public schools. These programs are full time, meaning that they replace a traditional classroom environment with a location that the family chooses.
- Parents of children in grades K-6 can expect to spend 3-5 hours per day supporting their child's education
- In grades 7-8, learning coach time typically decreases to about 2 hours per day as your child becomes more independent
- By high school, the parental learning coach role continues to be an important, supportive element; however, a student is expected to manage his or her own time with greater independence
- You can expect that your child will spend 5-6 hours per day on coursework and homework, which most parents believe is "just right."
For a variety of reasons, many children simply do not thrive in a traditional classroom. These students include those who:
K¹² provides families and students with the tools and support they need to achieve their goals. Whatever the reason, our program is working in our partner schools for families across the country who want well-rounded, academically successful children with strong character. And their children are responding with higher achievement and a new excitement about learning.
- Are accelerated learners or are bored with the pace of their classroom lessons
- Need more time than the standard classroom allows to master concepts
- Feel they don't fit in, or are being bullied in their school environment
- Are easily distracted in a classroom setting or have a learning challenge
- Seek extra attention that's not easily found in many classrooms
- Are homebound or undergoing medical treatments
- Travel frequently or are uprooted throughout the year due to family situations
- Are pursuing their dreams and careers in music, the arts, or in sports
I had no idea until I saw a TV commercial for online K-12 through the public school system. It's available in many states and free. Many of the schools will loan out a computer, printer and internet connection.
What do you think?
K¹² Free Online Public Schools for K-8 and High School Programs | K12
It's good and bad. I would not opt for it.
Good for those who struggle with physical maladies and who, otherwise, would miss more school.
Good for parents who want to homeschool but cannot fully do so for whatever reason.
Bad in that it might separate children from social interaction and physical components of education - it reduces education to computer time, separating things like coping in a new environment, learning how to be independent without parents 24/7, and learning other social and hands-on components.
Further, bad in that parents who suffer from various issues such as alcoholism or paranoid tendencies could more easily separate, negate, and sequester their children with ill intent. School is often the only way some abused and maltreated children are helped.
Out of sight - out of mind . . . which isn't not a "everyone does it" in my view - but some people do . . . and that's a concern for me.
I wouldn't mind it piped into prison cells; they could pick up their GED / Diploma and hell I'd say take time off their sentence if they do because the more educated they are one of two good things happen: 1) They don't do more crime or 2) They become smart enough not to get caught.
One of the flaws I see is the time required by parents everyday up until high school.
I think that computers are going to be the main provider of information in the future, but I suspect we will still largely have physical schools and real live teachers, even though the rolls might be a little different.
The trend in business has been away from allowing people to work at home. Not because businesses want to be mean, but because they found that most people who were working at home didn't actually do much work.
Just yesterday there was an link on cnn.com to an article about a college that has canceled all of it's online classes because the failure rate was so high. My kid will be finishing up his first online college class this week, and if it were not for me constantly checking up on him, he would have flunked the class - he didn't do his first three assignments and came within minutes of missing other deadlines. Most college age students really aren't mature enough to complete an on-line class, let alone grade school students.
about getting up in the morning and being in a certain place by a certain time for a certain event.
No idea if it's related, but at 40 I still have school nightmares where I can't find the class or haven't studied for a test or forgot my locker combination. Apparently it scarred me for lifeDumb idea anyway..."Oh I KNOW! Let's take a bunch of deranged, awash-in-hormones, brain-dead, clueless savage teenagers and STUFF them all elbow-to-elbow in a prison-like building, while forcing them to do things they think are boring and not letting them have time to blow off steam, five days a week... and we will throw in lots of bells and too-short periods to get between classes to jangle their nerves, and intercoms nobody can understand.... yeah THAT will go well! We'll call it Socialization!"
No idea if it's related, but at 40 I still have school nightmares where I can't find the class or haven't studied for a test or forgot my locker combination. Apparently it scarred me for life
No idea if it's related, but at 40 I still have school nightmares where I can't find the class or haven't studied for a test or forgot my locker combination. Apparently it scarred me for life
I wouldn't mind them because I think they work for specific students but only if they were not about market share, profit and return on investment. That is not the intention of education IMHO.
Wow, same exact thing here. Also, another reoccurring dream is when I have a class I've forgotten about and just realize it at the end of the semester.
I did that when I was working on my JD/MBA. The law firm I had worked for had trouble finding somebody to replace me who didn't royally irritate the clients I had worked with so they hired me to tele-commute and spent a freaking fortune on it beyond what they were paying me. Basically, they had extra business phone lines installed where I lived (fax and voice), remote computer access, and were shipping files back and forth (this was when affordable scanners were sketchy on the OCR's and not so readily convertible to PDF files). My problem was it got to the point that it was interfering with my school work because I was being bombarded from the time I got home until I left. I knew I would have like 10-20 messages waiting for me when I got home, as well as a big box of things to do from Fed Ex. I honestly was not paid for even half the time I was working but I felt guilty that they had dropped a mint setting me up, so I couldn't really just walk away without seeming like an ungrateful smuck so I suffered through it. Not something I would ever do again, though I do work at home quite a bit as the big boss man because two screaming kids is more peaceful than a bunch of phone lines going off at once, employees in and out, clients just randomly walking in without appointments because they just happened to be in the area, etc.I think that computers are going to be the main provider of information in the future, but I suspect we will still largely have physical schools and real live teachers, even though the rolls might be a little different.
The trend in business has been away from allowing people to work at home. Not because businesses want to be mean, but because they found that most people who were working at home didn't actually do much work....
I had no idea until I saw a TV commercial for online K-12 through the public school system. It's available in many states and free. Many of the schools will loan out a computer, printer and internet connection.
What do you think?
K¹² Free Online Public Schools for K-8 and High School Programs | K12
Do you think public schooling is fulfilling its mission of educating our children in an effective manner?
No, the way we fund our schools is a set up for failure.
It is usually a sign you have maybe too much stressful stuff on your plate. at least for me. I only have those when I have 12 things needing to be done ASAP and only time to do 3 of them.
I did that when I was working on my JD/MBA. The law firm I had worked for had trouble finding somebody to replace me who didn't royally irritate the clients I had worked with so they hired me to tele-commute and spent a freaking fortune on it beyond what they were paying me. Basically, they had extra business phone lines installed where I lived (fax and voice), remote computer access, and were shipping files back and forth (this was when affordable scanners were sketchy on the OCR's and not so readily convertible to PDF files). My problem was it got to the point that it was interfering with my school work because I was being bombarded from the time I got home until I left. I knew I would have like 10-20 messages waiting for me when I got home, as well as a big box of things to do from Fed Ex. I honestly was not paid for even half the time I was working but I felt guilty that they had dropped a mint setting me up, so I couldn't really just walk away without seeming like an ungrateful smuck so I suffered through it. Not something I would ever do again, though I do work at home quite a bit as the big boss man because two screaming kids is more peaceful than a bunch of phone lines going off at once, employees in and out, clients just randomly walking in without appointments because they just happened to be in the area, etc.
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